openbsd openssh CVE-2020-15778 vulnerability in OpenBSD and Other Products
Published on July 24, 2020

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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."

Vendor Advisory NVD

Vulnerability Analysis

CVE-2020-15778 is exploitable with local system access, requires user interaction. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. Public availability of a proof of concept (POC) exploit exists for CVE-2020-15778. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to be very high.

Attack Vector:
LOCAL
Attack Complexity:
LOW
Privileges Required:
NONE
User Interaction:
REQUIRED
Scope:
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact:
HIGH
Integrity Impact:
HIGH
Availability Impact:
HIGH

Weakness Type

What is a Shell injection Vulnerability?

The software constructs all or part of an OS command using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the intended OS command when it is sent to a downstream component.

CVE-2020-15778 has been classified to as a Shell injection vulnerability or weakness.


Products Associated with CVE-2020-15778

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OpenBSD OpenSSH
 
NetApp Active Iq Unified Manager
 
NetApp Hci Management Node
 
NetApp Solidfire
 
NetApp Steelstore Cloud Integrated Storage
 
NetApp Hci Compute Node
 
NetApp Hci Storage Node
 
NetApp Brocade Fabric Os
 
Broadcom Fabric Operating System
 
Oracle
 

Exploit Probability

EPSS
61.48%
Percentile
98.28%

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System) scores estimate the probability that a vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days. The percentile shows you how this score compares to all other vulnerabilities.