CVE-2021-28041

medium
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v4 NEW
not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.5

Description

ssh-agent in OpenSSH before 8.5 has a double free that may be relevant in a few less-common scenarios, such as unconstrained agent-socket access on a legacy operating system, or the forwarding of an agent to an attacker-controlled host.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here with source_tier=community-verified.

OS impact

suse SUSE Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
Affected
arch Arch Fixed 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
Fixed 8.5p1-1
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 1:8.4p1-5
sid Fixed 1:8.4p1-5
forky Fixed 1:8.4p1-5
bullseye Fixed 1:8.4p1-5
bookworm Fixed 1:8.4p1-5

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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