FKIE_CVE-2020-15778

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2020-07-24 14:15 - Updated: 2025-07-28 18:12
Severity ?
7.4 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
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
cve@mitre.orghttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:3166Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/cpandya2909/CVE-2020-15778/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25005567Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202212-06Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200731-0007/Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.openssh.com/security.htmlVendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:3166Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/cpandya2909/CVE-2020-15778/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25005567Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202212-06Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200731-0007/Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.openssh.com/security.htmlVendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
openbsd openssh *
openbsd openssh 8.3
openbsd openssh 8.3
netapp a700s_firmware -
netapp a700s -
netapp active_iq_unified_manager *
netapp hci_management_node -
netapp solidfire -
netapp steelstore_cloud_integrated_storage -
netapp hci_compute_node -
netapp hci_storage_node -
broadcom fabric_operating_system -
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