CVE-2019-6110 (GCVE-0-2019-6110)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-01-31 00:00 – Updated: 2025-12-18 14:32
VLAI?
Summary
In OpenSSH 7.9, due to accepting and displaying arbitrary stderr output from the server, a malicious server (or Man-in-The-Middle attacker) can manipulate the client output, for example to use ANSI control codes to hide additional files being transferred.
Severity ?
6.8 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CWE
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