CVE-2016-10009

Exploitation

Public exploit code exists. CISA's assessment records a public proof of concept. That is not a report of exploitation in the wild.

SSVC decision

• ExploitationpocPublic proof-of-concept exploit code exists. Not a report of exploitation in the wild.
• AutomatableyesAn attacker can reliably automate reconnaissance through exploitation, so this scales.
• Technical ImpactpartialSuccessful exploitation gives limited control of the vulnerable component.

CISA publishes the decision points, not a final SSVC decision. The decision also depends on mission and well-being impact, which is a property of your deployment rather than of the vulnerability.

EPSS probability

37.43% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Equal to or higher than the score of 98.4% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.

NVD base score

7.3 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.

NVD CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

NVD analysis status

Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.

Red Hat severity

Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.

Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.

Published

2017-01-05 00:00Z9 YR AGO

Last updated

2026-05-29 20:23Z5 MO AGO

Reserved

2016-12-19

Assigning CNA

mitre

Record state

PUBLISHED

Severity

High (CVSS 7.3)

CNA CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Weaknesses

• CWE-426Untrusted Search PathBase

Data version

5.2

Document digest

b6ae3a2256acc4ba3094af1363a5bba7335f5da6a77749174e759359c28b15d5

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• www.securitytracker.com1037490http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037490vdb-entry
• support.hpe.comhttps://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-hpesbux03818en_us
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• usn.ubuntu.comUSN-3538-1https://usn.ubuntu.com/3538-1/vendor-advisory
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• access.redhat.comRHSA-2017:2029https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2029vendor-advisory
• packetstormsecurity.comhttp://packetstormsecurity.com/files/140261/OpenSSH-Arbitrary-Library-Loading.html
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• www.openssh.comhttps://www.openssh.com/txt/release-7.4
• bugs.chromium.orghttps://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1009
• cert-portal.siemens.comhttps://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-412672.pdf
• www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20230719 CVE-2023-38408: Remote Code Execution in OpenSSH's forwarded ssh-agenthttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/07/19/9mailing-list
• seclists.org20230719 CVE-2023-38408: Remote Code Execution in OpenSSH's forwarded ssh-agenthttp://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2023/Jul/31mailing-list
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• packetstormsecurity.comhttp://packetstormsecurity.com/files/173661/OpenSSH-Forwarded-SSH-Agent-Remote-Code-Execution.html