CVE-2020-15778 Information

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.\

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Reference

https://github.com/cpandya2909/CVE-2020-15778/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25005567 https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200731-0007/ https://www.openssh.com/security.html

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

7.8