CVE-2019-7283

Severity: high (CVSS 7.4 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2019-01-31 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

An issue was discovered in rcp in NetKit through 0.17. For an rcp operation, the server chooses which files/directories are sent to the client. However, the rcp client only performs cursory validation of the object name returned. A malicious rsh server (or Man-in-The-Middle attacker) can overwrite arbitrary files in a directory on the rcp client machine. This is similar to CVE-2019-6111.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 9.0
Netkit: through 0.17

References

https://bugs.debian.org/920486
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/11/msg00016.html
https://sintonen.fi/advisories/scp-client-multiple-vulnerabilities.txt
https://bugs.debian.org/920486
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/11/msg00016.html
https://sintonen.fi/advisories/scp-client-multiple-vulnerabilities.txt

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