Command Injection Affecting openssh-portable package, versions [,8.3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.59% (79th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-OPENSSHPORTABLE-2319247
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed24 Jul 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 24 Jul 2020

CVE-2020-15778  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-78  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade openssh-portable to version 8.3 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Command Injection. ** DISPUTED ** 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."

CVSS Scores

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