CVE-2020-15778 (GCVE-0-2020-15778)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-07-24 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-04 13:22 Disputed
VLAI?
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."
Severity ?
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
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