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CVE-2024-6409highobserved exploitationCWE-364

Openssh: possible remote code execution due to a race condition in signal handling affecting red hat enterprise linux 9

48Vexday Risk Score

Prioritize patching. It exploitation observed by VulnCheck.

ssvc Actcvss 7epss 28%
from disclosure to weapon
Published on NVDJul 8
VulnCheck+247d
exploitation probability
28%top 2% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
yesVulnCheck
A race condition vulnerability was discovered in how signals are handled by OpenSSH's server (sshd). If a remote attacker does not authenticate within a set time period, then sshd's SIGALRM handler is called asynchronously. However, this signal handler calls various functions that are not async-signal-safe, for example, syslog(). As a consequence of a successful attack, in the worst case scenario, an attacker may be able to perform a remote code execution (RCE) as an unprivileged user running the sshd server.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H