CVE-2020-15778

HIGH7.4EPSS 64.3%
Published: 7/24/2020Modified: 12/3/2025
Also known as:ALPINE-CVE-2020-15778DEBIAN-CVE-2020-15778

Description

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."

Affected packages (2)

CVSS scores

SourceVersionSeverityVector
osvCVSS 3.1HIGH7.4CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References (2)