Backdoor in xz-utils liblzma
A multi-year social engineering campaign planted a backdoor in the xz release tarballs, hooking sshd via liblzma.
- Severity
- 10.0critical
- Vendor
- xz-utils
- Disclosed
- 29 Mar 2024
- Affected
- xz-utils 5.6.0, xz-utils 5.6.1
CVSS breakdown
- Attack vector
- Network
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- High
- Availability
- High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Analysis
Placeholder analysis — replace before publishing.