CVE-2020-15778
HIGH 7.4EPSS 13.7%
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."
- CVSS v3.1 NVD
- 7.4 HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - CVSS v3.1 CNA
- 7.8 HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - CVSS v2.0 NVD
- 6.8 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P - EPSS
- 13.68% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 96th percentile
- Published
- 2020-07-24
- Updated
- 2026-10-14
Proof-of-concept exploits (3)
- Evan-Zhangyf/CVE-2020-157783★ · 2023-09-27
- Neko-chanQwQ/CVE-2020-15778-Exploit38★ · 2022-02-18
- cpandya2909/CVE-2020-15778142★ · 2023-03-27
Security advisories
- https://www.openssh.com/security.html
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:3166
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25005567
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202212-06
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200731-0007