New OpenSSH Vulnerability Could Lead to RCE as Root on Linux Systems
1 min read![](https://askcybersteve.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/ssh-m2la5K.png)
OpenSSH maintainers have released security updates to contain a critical security flaw that could result in unauthenticated remote code execution with root privileges in glibc-based Linux systems.
The vulnerability has been assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2024-6387. It resides in the OpenSSH server component, also known as sshd, which is designed to listen for connections from any of the client