CVE-2020-15778

Summary

CVECVE-2020-15778
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-07-24 14:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:17:00 UTC
Description** DISPUTED ** 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."

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-78

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Broadcom Fabric Operating System - All All All
Hardware Netapp A700s - All All All
Operating System Netapp A700s Firmware - All All All
Application Netapp Active Iq Unified Manager All All All All
Operating System Netapp Brocade Fabric Os - All All All
Hardware Netapp Hci Compute Node - All All All
Application Netapp Hci Management Node - All All All
Hardware Netapp Hci Storage Node - All All All
Application Netapp Solidfire - All All All
Application Netapp Steelstore Cloud Integrated Storage - All All All
Application Openbsd Openssh All All All All
Application Openbsd Openssh 8.3 - All All
Application Openbsd Openssh 8.3 p1 All All
Application Openbsd Openssh All All All All
Application Openbsd Openssh 8.3 - All All
Application Openbsd Openssh 8.3 p1 All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
GitHub - cpandya2909/CVE-2020-15778 MISC github.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory
OpenSSH: Security MISC www.openssh.com Vendor Advisory
OpenSSH: Multiple Vulnerabilities (GLSA 202212-06) — Gentoo security GENTOO security.gentoo.org
CVE-2020-15778 OpenSSH Vulnerability in NetApp Products | NetApp Product Security CONFIRM security.netapp.com
Deprecating Scp | Hacker News MISC news.ycombinator.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 38901 OpenSSH Command Injection Vulnerability
  • 591406 Siemens SIMATIC S7-1500 CPU GNU/Linux subsystem Multiple Vulnerabilities (SSB-439005, ICSA-22-104-13)
  • 670406 EulerOS Security Update for openssh (EulerOS-SA-2021-1993)
  • 710695 Gentoo Linux OpenSSH Multiple Vulnerabilities (GLSA 202212-06)
  • 900081 CBL-Mariner Linux Security Update for openssh 8.0p1
  • 902817 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for openssh (2521)
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