Expected Behavior Violation Affecting openssh-portable package, versions [,10.0p1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.02% (3rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-OPENSSHPORTABLE-9680269
  • published10 Apr 2025
  • disclosed10 Apr 2025
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 10 Apr 2025

NewCVE-2025-32728  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-440  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade openssh-portable to version 10.0p1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Expected Behavior Violation due to the behavior of the DisableForwarding directive in sshd(8), which fails to disable X11 forwarding and agent forwarding by default. An attacker can bypass intended security restrictions.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1