CVE-2020-15778
HIGH severity · CVSS 7.4 · OS command injection
7.4CVSS HIGH
Summary
scp in OpenSSH through 8.3p1 allows command injection in the scp.c toremote function, as demonstrated by backtick characters in the destination argument. NOTE: the vendor reportedly has stated that they intentionally omit validation of "anomalous argument transfers" because that could "stand a great chance of breaking existing workflows."
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorAdjacent
Attack complexityLow
Privileges requiredLow
User interactionRequired
Confidentiality impactHigh
Integrity impactHigh
Availability impactHigh
Exploit probability (EPSS)13%
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- https://www.openssh.com/security.htmlAdvisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:3166Advisory
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25005567Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202212-06Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200731-0007/Advisory
- https://github.com/cpandya2909/CVE-2020-15778/Advisory