Attacker Value
Unknown
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Exploitability
Unknown
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User Interaction
Required
Privileges Required
None
Attack Vector
Local
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CVE-2020-15778

Disclosure Date: July 24, 2020 •
CVE-2020-15778 CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.8
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Initial Access
Techniques
Validation
Validated
Privilege Escalation
Techniques
Validation
Validated

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.”

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CVSS V3 Severity and Metrics
Base Score:
7.8 High
Impact Score:
5.9
Exploitability Score:
1.8
Vector:
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector (AV):
Local
Attack Complexity (AC):
Low
Privileges Required (PR):
None
User Interaction (UI):
Required
Scope (S):
Unchanged
Confidentiality (C):
High
Integrity (I):
High
Availability (A):
High

General Information

Offensive Application
Unknown
Utility Class
Unknown
Ports
Unknown
OS
Unknown
Vulnerable Versions
n/a
Prerequisites
Unknown
Discovered By
Unknown
PoC Author
Unknown
Metasploit Module
Unknown
Reporter
Unknown

Vendors

  • broadcom,
  • netapp,
  • openbsd

Products

  • a700s firmware -,
  • active iq unified manager,
  • fabric operating system -,
  • hci compute node -,
  • hci management node -,
  • hci storage node -,
  • openssh,
  • openssh 8.3,
  • solidfire -,
  • steelstore cloud integrated storage -
Technical Analysis