14 million Linux systems at risk due to regreSSHion vulnerability CVE-2024-6387, enabling unauthenticated RCE and potential full system compromise.

Critical OpenSSH vulnerability CVE-2024-6387, dubbed "regreSSHion", impacts 14 million exposed glibc-based Linux systems, allowing unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) and potential full system compromise. The regression issue is a re-emergence of a 2006 vulnerability, CVE-2006-5051. Organizations are advised to patch OpenSSH, apply network controls, and segment networks to protect against this severe threat.