CVE-2007-4752
HIGH · CVSS 7.5EPSS 2.4%EU EUVD
ssh in OpenSSH before 4.7 does not properly handle when an untrusted cookie cannot be created and uses a trusted X11 cookie instead, which allows attackers to violate intended policy and gain privileges by causing an X client to be treated as trusted.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.5 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-20
- EPSS score
- 2.4% (84th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2007-4733)
- Published
- September 12, 2007
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2007-4733 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- openbsd / openssh
- openbsd / openssh
- openbsd / openssh
- openbsd / openssh
- openbsd / openssh
- openbsd / openssh
- openbsd / openssh
- openbsd / openssh
- openbsd / openssh
- openbsd / openssh
- openbsd / openssh
- openbsd / openssh
- openbsd / openssh
References
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=191321
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307562
- http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c01271085
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Mar/msg00001.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2007-10/msg00008.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27399
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29420
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30249
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31575
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32241
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-02.xml
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3126
- http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-399.htm
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1576
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:236
- http://www.openssh.com/txt/release-4.7
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0855.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/479760/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/483748/100/200/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25628
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-566-1
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3156
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0924/references
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2821
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=280471
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36637
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1706(Patch)
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10809
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5599
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-October/msg00214.html
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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