CVE-2020-15778

high

Description

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."

References

https://www.openssh.com/security.html

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200731-0007/

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202212-06

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25005567

https://github.com/cpandya2909/CVE-2020-15778/

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:3166

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2020-07-24

Updated: 2024-08-04

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High