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OpenSSH < 3.4p1 scp Traversal Arbitrary File Overwrite

medium Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 701170

Synopsis

A file transfer client on the remote host could be abused to overwrite arbitrary files.

Description

According to its banner, the version of OpenSSH running on the remote host is earlier than version 3.4p1. Such versions contain an arbitrary file overwrite vulnerability that could allow a malicious SSH server to cause the supplied scp utility to write to arbitrary files outside of the current directory.

Solution

Upgrade to OpenSSH version 3.4p1 or later.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?5cc380af,https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=120147,http://www.juniper.net/support/security/alerts/adv59739.txt

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 701170

Family: SSH

Published: 8/21/2019

Updated: 8/21/2019

Nessus ID: 17701

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:openbsd:openssh

Patch Publication Date: 4/1/2004

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/6/2004

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2004-0175

BID: 9986