CVE-2020-12062

Summary

CVECVE-2020-12062
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-06-01 16:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:15:00 UTC
Description** DISPUTED ** The scp client in OpenSSH 8.2 incorrectly sends duplicate responses to the server upon a utimes system call failure, which allows a malicious unprivileged user on the remote server to overwrite arbitrary files in the client's download directory by creating a crafted subdirectory anywhere on the remote server. The victim must use the command scp -rp to download a file hierarchy containing, anywhere inside, this crafted subdirectory. NOTE: the vendor points out that "this attack can achieve no more than a hostile peer is already able to achieve within the scp protocol" and "utimes does not fail under normal circumstances."

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-20

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Openbsd Openssh 8.2 All All All
Application Openbsd Openssh 8.2 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
oss-security - Announce: OpenSSH 8.3 released MISC www.openwall.com Mailing List, Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
www.openssh.com/txt/release-8.3 MISC www.openssh.com Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
upstream: when receving a file in sink(), be careful to send at · openssh/openssh-portable@aad87b8 · GitHub MISC github.com Third Party Advisory
upstream: another case where a utimes() failure could make scp send · openssh/openssh-portable@955854c · GitHub MISC github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 591406 Siemens SIMATIC S7-1500 CPU GNU/Linux subsystem Multiple Vulnerabilities (SSB-439005, ICSA-22-104-13)
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