CVE-2023-51384

medium
Published 2023-12-18 · Modified 2026-05-12
CVSS v3
5.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS v2
VIR risk
5.5

Description

In ssh-agent in OpenSSH before 9.6, certain destination constraints can be incompletely applied. When destination constraints are specified during addition of PKCS#11-hosted private keys, these constraints are only applied to the first key, even if a PKCS#11 token returns multiple keys.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
55%
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-2023-51384

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-51384.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/12/18/2

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://www.openssh.com/txt/release-9.6

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://github.com/openssh/openssh-portable/commit/881d9c6af9da4257c69c327c4e2f1508b2fa754b

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debian11.0affected
debian debian12.0affected
debian debianbookwormfixed1:9.2p1-2+deb12u2
debian debianbullseyefixed0
debian debianforkyfixed1:9.6p1-1
debian debiansidfixed1:9.6p1-1
debian debiantrixiefixed1:9.6p1-1

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
openbsdopenssh{"startIncluding":"8.9","endExcluding":"9.6"}9.6

References

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