CVE-2020-15778High· 7.4▾ MidnightPoC availablescp 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 "…
▾ Midnight zone — Critical, or high with PoC / in-the-wild
impact 40.7 · likelihood 2.7 · exploitation 12
A public proof-of-concept already exists for this vulnerability — see Exploit availability below.
Public exploit / PoC code seen in 1 source. Availability, not in-the-wild use.
Stakeholder-Specific Vulnerability Categorization from CISA's ADP record at CVE.org: whether exploitation is observed, whether an attack can be automated, and how much of the system is at stake.
Exploit-prediction probability, daily snapshots since Oct 14.
Disclosure to exploitation, from the record and what we observed since indexing it.
Disclosed via NVD
Last analysed / modified upstream
13%
13% → 14%
4 GitHub repos (last check)
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."
openssh < 8.3openssh = 8.3a700s_firmwareactive_iq_unified_manager >= 9.5hci_management_nodesolidfiresteelstore_cloud_integrated_storagehci_compute_nodehci_storage_nodefabric_operating_systemUpgrade past the affected range:
openssh 8.3Connected by shared product, vendor, weakness, or advisory.
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CVE-2021-28041High· 7.1ssh-agent in OpenSSH before 8.5 has a double free that may be relevant in a few less-common scenarios, such as unconstrained agent-socket access on a legacy operating system, or the forwarding of an agent to an attacker-controlled host.
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CVE-2023-51385Medium· 6.5In ssh in OpenSSH before 9.6, OS command injection might occur if a user name or host name has shell metacharacters, and this name is referenced by an expansion token in certain situations
CVE-2023-25136Medium· 6.5OpenSSH server (sshd) 9.1 introduced a double-free vulnerability during options.kex_algorithms handling
CVE-2019-6110Medium· 6.8In OpenSSH 7.9, due to accepting and displaying arbitrary stderr output from the server, a malicious server (or Man-in-The-Middle attacker) can manipulate the client output, for example to use ANSI control codes to hide additional files …