CVE-2019-6110

In OpenSSH 7.9, due to accepting and displaying arbitrary stderr output from the server, a malicious server (or Man-in-The-Middle attacker) can manipulate the client output, for example to use ANSI control codes to hide additional files being transferred.

CVSS v3.1 NVD

6.8 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

CVSS v2.0 NVD

4.0 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

EPSS

24.90% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 98th percentile

Published

2019-01-31

Updated

2026-10-14

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

• mbadanoiu/MAL-0080★ · 2024-07-01

ExploitDB entries (2)

• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/46516
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/46193

Security advisories

• https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-412672.pdf
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201903-16
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190213-0001
• https://sintonen.fi/advisories/scp-client-multiple-vulnerabilities.txt
• https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/src/usr.bin/ssh/progressmeter.c
• https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/src/usr.bin/ssh/scp.c

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry