CVE-2020-15778

CVE-2020-15778
HIGH 7.8

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 13.68 % · percentile 96 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
mitre
NVD status
Modified

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."

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-78 — Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCISA-ADP
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.4CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 (Secondary)
CVSS 2.0MEDIUM 6.8AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:PNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
affected n/a

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD