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THREAT OPS › Threat News › [NVD] CVE-2021-41617 (HIGH 7.0) — 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

[NVD] CVE-2021-41617 (HIGH 7.0) — 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

lownvdPublished 2021-09-26

CVE-2021-41617 CVSS: 7.0 HIGH Published: 2021-09-26T19:15:07.263

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

Indicators of compromise

CVE-2021-41617cve

Original source: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-41617