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F5 Networks: K04305530: SCP vulnerability CVE-2020-15778

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F5 Networks: K04305530: SCP vulnerability CVE-2020-15778

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
07/24/2020
Created
09/24/2020
Added
09/23/2020
Modified
12/12/2023

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."

Solution(s)

  • f5-big-ip-upgrade-latest

References

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