| Name | CVE-2020-15778 |
| 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." |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| openssh (PTS) | buster | 1:7.9p1-10+deb10u2 | vulnerable |
| buster (security) | 1:7.9p1-10+deb10u4 | vulnerable |
| bullseye (security), bullseye | 1:8.4p1-5+deb11u3 | vulnerable |
| bookworm, bookworm (security) | 1:9.2p1-2+deb12u2 | vulnerable |
| trixie | 1:9.6p1-4 | vulnerable |
| sid | 1:9.7p1-4 | vulnerable |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| openssh | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) | unimportant | | |
Notes
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1860487
https://github.com/cpandya2909/CVE-2020-15778
Negligible security impact, changing the scp protocol can have a good chance
of breaking existing workflows.