vulnerability

Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2018-20685: Security patch for openssh (ALAS-2019-1313)

Severity
3
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Jan 10, 2019
Added
Oct 31, 2019
Modified
Oct 31, 2019

Description

In OpenSSH 7.9, scp.c in the scp client allows remote SSH servers to bypass intended access restrictions via the filename of . or an empty filename. The impact is modifying the permissions of the target directory on the client side.

Solution

amazon-linux-upgrade-openssh
Title
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