CVE-2016-3115

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Published 2016-03-22 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
6.4
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS v2
5.5
VIR risk
6.4

Description

Multiple CRLF injection vulnerabilities in session.c in sshd in OpenSSH before 7.2p2 allow remote authenticated users to bypass intended shell-command restrictions via crafted X11 forwarding data, related to the (1) do_authenticated1 and (2) session_x11_req functions.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
74%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-3115

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://www.openssh.com/txt/x11fwd.adv

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-3115.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed1:7.2p2-1
debian debianbullseyefixed1:7.2p2-1
debian debianforkyfixed1:7.2p2-1
debian debiansidfixed1:7.2p2-1
debian debiantrixiefixed1:7.2p2-1

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
openbsdopenssh{"endIncluding":"7.2"}

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.