CVE-2006-0225

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-01-25 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

scp in OpenSSH 4.2p1 allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands via filenames that contain shell metacharacters or spaces, which are expanded twice.

Affected products

OpenSSH: 3.0, 3.0.1, 3.0.1p1, 3.0.2, 3.0.2p1, 3.0p1 (+27)

References

http://blogs.sun.com/security/entry/sun_alert_102961_security_vulnerability
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305214
http://itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docId=c00815112
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Mar/msg00002.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/18579
http://secunia.com/advisories/18595
http://secunia.com/advisories/18650
http://secunia.com/advisories/18736
http://secunia.com/advisories/18798
http://secunia.com/advisories/18850

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