{"api_version":"1","generated_at":"2026-04-22T23:09:00+00:00","cve":"CVE-2016-5725","urls":{"html":"https://cve.report/CVE-2016-5725","api":"https://cve.report/api/cve/CVE-2016-5725.json","docs":"https://cve.report/api","cve_org":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-5725","nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-5725"},"summary":{"title":"CVE-2016-5725","description":"Directory traversal vulnerability in JCraft JSch before 0.1.54 on Windows, when the mode is ChannelSftp.OVERWRITE, allows remote SFTP servers to write to arbitrary files via a ..\\ (dot dot backslash) in a response to a recursive GET command.","state":"PUBLIC","assigner":"cve@mitre.org","published_at":"2017-01-19 22:59:00","updated_at":"2021-06-14 18:15:00"},"problem_types":["CWE-22"],"metrics":[],"references":[{"url":"https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40411/","name":"40411","refsource":"EXPLOIT-DB","tags":["Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"title":"JCraft/JSch Java Secure Channel 0.1.53 - Recursive sftp-get Directory Traversal","mime":"text/html","httpstatus":"200","archivestatus":"200"},{"url":"https://github.com/tintinweb/pub/tree/master/pocs/cve-2016-5725","name":"https://github.com/tintinweb/pub/tree/master/pocs/cve-2016-5725","refsource":"MISC","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"title":"pub/pocs/cve-2016-5725 at master · tintinweb/pub · GitHub","mime":"text/html","httpstatus":"200","archivestatus":"200"},{"url":"http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2016/Sep/53","name":"20160921 CVE-2016-5725 - JCraft/JSch Java Secure Channel <= 0.1.53 recursive sftp-get path traversal (client-side, windows)","refsource":"FULLDISC","tags":["Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"title":"Full Disclosure: CVE-2016-5725 - JCraft/JSch Java Secure Channel <= 0.1.53\trecursive sftp-get path traversal (client-side, windows)","mime":"text/html","httpstatus":"200","archivestatus":"200"},{"url":"https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html","name":"https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html","refsource":"MISC","tags":[],"title":"Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory - October 2020","mime":"text/html","httpstatus":"200","archivestatus":"200"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93100","name":"93100","refsource":"BID","tags":["Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"title":"JCraft JSch CVE-2016-5725 Directory Traversal Vulnerability","mime":"text/html","httpstatus":"200","archivestatus":"0"},{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3115","name":"RHSA-2017:3115","refsource":"REDHAT","tags":[],"title":"Red Hat Customer Portal","mime":"text/html","httpstatus":"200","archivestatus":"200"},{"url":"http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/138809/jsch-0.1.53-Path-Traversal.html","name":"http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/138809/jsch-0.1.53-Path-Traversal.html","refsource":"MISC","tags":["Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"title":"jsch 0.1.53 Path Traversal ≈ Packet Storm","mime":"text/html","httpstatus":"200","archivestatus":"200"},{"url":"http://www.jcraft.com/jsch/ChangeLog","name":"http://www.jcraft.com/jsch/ChangeLog","refsource":"CONFIRM","tags":["Release Notes"],"title":"","mime":"text/plain","httpstatus":"200","archivestatus":"200"},{"url":"https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuApr2021.html","name":"https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuApr2021.html","refsource":"MISC","tags":[],"title":"Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory - April 2021","mime":"text/html","httpstatus":"200","archivestatus":"200"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/04/msg00017.html","name":"[debian-lts-announce] 20200425 [SECURITY] [DLA 2184-1] jsch security update","refsource":"MLIST","tags":[],"title":"[SECURITY] [DLA 2184-1] jsch security update","mime":"text/html","httpstatus":"200","archivestatus":"200"},{"url":"https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2021.html","name":"https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2021.html","refsource":"MISC","tags":[],"title":"Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory - January 2021","mime":"text/html","httpstatus":"200","archivestatus":"200"},{"url":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-5725","name":"CVE Program record","refsource":"CVE.ORG","tags":["canonical"]},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-5725","name":"NVD vulnerability detail","refsource":"NVD","tags":["canonical","analysis"]}],"affected":[],"timeline":[],"solutions":[],"workarounds":[],"exploits":[],"credits":[],"nvd_cpes":[{"cve_year":"2016","cve_id":"5725","vulnerable":"1","versionEndIncluding":"0.1.53","cpe1":"cpe","cpe2":"2.3","cpe3":"a","cpe4":"jcraft","cpe5":"jsch","cpe6":"*","cpe7":"*","cpe8":"*","cpe9":"*","cpe10":"*","cpe11":"*","cpe12":"*","cpe13":"*"},{"cve_year":"2016","cve_id":"5725","vulnerable":"-1","versionEndIncluding":"","cpe1":"cpe","cpe2":"2.3","cpe3":"o","cpe4":"microsoft","cpe5":"windows","cpe6":"*","cpe7":"*","cpe8":"*","cpe9":"*","cpe10":"*","cpe11":"*","cpe12":"*","cpe13":"*"},{"cve_year":"2016","cve_id":"5725","vulnerable":"0","versionEndIncluding":"1","cpe1":"cpe","cpe2":"2.3","cpe3":"o","cpe4":"microsoft","cpe5":"windows","cpe6":"*","cpe7":"*","cpe8":"*","cpe9":"*","cpe10":"*","cpe11":"*","cpe12":"*","cpe13":"*"}],"vendor_comments":[],"enrichments":{"kev":null,"epss":null,"legacy_qids":[{"cve":"CVE-2016-5725","qid":"20297","title":"Oracle Database 18c Critical OJVM Patch Update - October 2020"},{"cve":"CVE-2016-5725","qid":"20313","title":"Oracle Database 12.2.0.1 Critical OJVM Patch Update - October 2020"}]},"source_records":{"cve_program":{"CVE_data_meta":{"ASSIGNER":"cve@mitre.org","ID":"CVE-2016-5725","STATE":"PUBLIC"},"affects":{"vendor":{"vendor_data":[{"product":{"product_data":[{"product_name":"n/a","version":{"version_data":[{"version_value":"n/a"}]}}]},"vendor_name":"n/a"}]}},"data_format":"MITRE","data_type":"CVE","data_version":"4.0","description":{"description_data":[{"lang":"eng","value":"Directory traversal vulnerability in JCraft JSch before 0.1.54 on Windows, when the mode is ChannelSftp.OVERWRITE, allows remote SFTP servers to write to arbitrary files via a ..\\ (dot dot backslash) in a response to a recursive GET command."}]},"problemtype":{"problemtype_data":[{"description":[{"lang":"eng","value":"n/a"}]}]},"references":{"reference_data":[{"name":"20160921 CVE-2016-5725 - JCraft/JSch Java Secure Channel <= 0.1.53 recursive sftp-get path traversal (client-side, windows)","refsource":"FULLDISC","url":"http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2016/Sep/53"},{"name":"93100","refsource":"BID","url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93100"},{"name":"RHSA-2017:3115","refsource":"REDHAT","url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3115"},{"name":"40411","refsource":"EXPLOIT-DB","url":"https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40411/"},{"refsource":"MLIST","name":"[debian-lts-announce] 20200425 [SECURITY] [DLA 2184-1] jsch security update","url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/04/msg00017.html"},{"url":"https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html","refsource":"MISC","name":"https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html"},{"name":"http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/138809/jsch-0.1.53-Path-Traversal.html","refsource":"MISC","url":"http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/138809/jsch-0.1.53-Path-Traversal.html"},{"name":"https://github.com/tintinweb/pub/tree/master/pocs/cve-2016-5725","refsource":"MISC","url":"https://github.com/tintinweb/pub/tree/master/pocs/cve-2016-5725"},{"name":"http://www.jcraft.com/jsch/ChangeLog","refsource":"CONFIRM","url":"http://www.jcraft.com/jsch/ChangeLog"},{"url":"https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2021.html","refsource":"MISC","name":"https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2021.html"},{"url":"https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuApr2021.html","refsource":"MISC","name":"https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuApr2021.html"}]}},"nvd":{"publishedDate":"2017-01-19 22:59:00","lastModifiedDate":"2021-06-14 18:15:00","problem_types":["CWE-22"],"metrics":{"baseMetricV3":{"cvssV3":{"version":"3.0","vectorString":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N","attackVector":"NETWORK","attackComplexity":"HIGH","privilegesRequired":"NONE","userInteraction":"NONE","scope":"UNCHANGED","confidentialityImpact":"NONE","integrityImpact":"HIGH","availabilityImpact":"NONE","baseScore":5.9,"baseSeverity":"MEDIUM"},"exploitabilityScore":2.2,"impactScore":3.6},"baseMetricV2":{"cvssV2":{"version":"2.0","vectorString":"AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N","accessVector":"NETWORK","accessComplexity":"MEDIUM","authentication":"NONE","confidentialityImpact":"NONE","integrityImpact":"PARTIAL","availabilityImpact":"NONE","baseScore":4.3},"severity":"MEDIUM","exploitabilityScore":8.6,"impactScore":2.9,"obtainAllPrivilege":false,"obtainUserPrivilege":false,"obtainOtherPrivilege":false,"userInteractionRequired":false}},"configurations":{"CVE_data_version":"4.0","nodes":[{"operator":"AND","children":[{"operator":"OR","children":[],"cpe_match":[{"vulnerable":true,"cpe23Uri":"cpe:2.3:a:jcraft:jsch:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","versionEndIncluding":"0.1.53","cpe_name":[]}]},{"operator":"OR","children":[],"cpe_match":[{"vulnerable":false,"cpe23Uri":"cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","cpe_name":[]}]}],"cpe_match":[]}]}},"legacy_mitre":{"record":{"CveYear":"2016","CveId":"5725","Ordinal":"91827","Title":"CVE-2016-5725","CVE":"CVE-2016-5725","Year":"2016"},"notes":[{"CveYear":"2016","CveId":"5725","Ordinal":"1","NoteData":"Directory traversal vulnerability in JCraft JSch before 0.1.54 on Windows, when the mode is ChannelSftp.OVERWRITE, allows remote SFTP servers to write to arbitrary files via a ..\\ (dot dot backslash) in a response to a recursive GET command.","Type":"Description","Title":null},{"CveYear":"2016","CveId":"5725","Ordinal":"2","NoteData":"2017-01-19","Type":"Other","Title":"Published"},{"CveYear":"2016","CveId":"5725","Ordinal":"3","NoteData":"2021-06-14","Type":"Other","Title":"Modified"}]}}}