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Improper Privilege Management The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package openssh  (opens in a new tab)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU2204-OPENSSH-2775193
  • published29 Sept 2021
  • disclosed26 Sept 2021
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Introduced: 26 Sep 2021

CVE-2021-41617  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-269  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:22.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream openssh package and not the openssh package as distributed by Ubuntu.

sshd in OpenSSH 6.2 through 8.x before 8.8, when certain non-default configurations are used, allows privilege escalation because supplemental groups are not initialized as expected. Helper programs for AuthorizedKeysCommand and AuthorizedPrincipalsCommand may run with privileges associated with group memberships of the sshd process, if the configuration specifies running the command as a different user.

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