vulnerability

Rocky Linux: CVE-2020-15778: openssh (RLSA-2024-3166)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jul 24, 2020
Added
May 8, 2025
Modified
Mar 31, 2026

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."

Solutions

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Title
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