Vulnerability CVE-2018-20685
Published: 2019-01-10

Description:
In OpenSSH 7.9, scp.c in the scp client allows remote SSH servers to bypass intended access restrictions via the filename of . or an empty filename. The impact is modifying the permissions of the target directory on the client side.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
Med.
SCP Server Verification Issues
Harry Sintonen
16.01.2019

Type:

CWE-706

 (Use of Incorrectly-Resolved Name or Reference)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
2.6/10
2.9/10
4.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
High
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
Partial
None
Affected software
Winscp -> Winscp 
Redhat -> Enterprise linux 
Oracle -> Solaris 
Openbsd -> Openssh 
Netapp -> Cloud backup 
Netapp -> Element software 
Netapp -> Ontap select deploy 
Netapp -> Steelstore cloud integrated storage 
Netapp -> Storage automation store 
Debian -> Debian linux 
Canonical -> Ubuntu linux 

 References:
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106531
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-20685
https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/ssh/scp.c.diff?r1=1.197&r2=1.198&f=h
https://github.com/openssh/openssh-portable/commit/6010c0303a422a9c5fa8860c061bf7105eb7f8b2
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00030.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201903-16
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190215-0001/
https://sintonen.fi/advisories/scp-client-multiple-vulnerabilities.txt
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3885-1/
https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4387
https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2019-5072813.html
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