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F5 Networks: K11315080 (CVE-2018-20685): OpenSSH vulnerability CVE-2018-20685

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F5 Networks: K11315080 (CVE-2018-20685): OpenSSH vulnerability CVE-2018-20685

Severity
3
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
01/10/2019
Created
03/19/2019
Added
02/06/2019
Modified
03/02/2020

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(s)

  • f5-big-ip-upgrade-latest

References

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