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CVE-2020-15778

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.4 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 13.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2020-07-24 · updated 2026-10-14
• Weakness: CWE-78

Description

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."

Affected products

• Brocade Fabric OS: all versions
• NetApp A700S Firmware: all versions
• Active IQ Unified Manager for VMware vSphere, Linux, and Microsoft Windows: from 9.5
• NetApp Hci Compute Node: all versions
• NetApp Hci Management Node: all versions
• NetApp Hci Storage Node: all versions
• NetApp Solidfire: all versions
• NetApp Steelstore Cloud Integrated Storage: all versions
• OpenSSH: before 8.3; 8.3, 8.3-p1 — fixed in 8.3

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: OpenSSH 8.3. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:3166
• https://github.com/cpandya2909/CVE-2020-15778/
• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25005567
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202212-06
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200731-0007/
• https://www.openssh.com/security.html
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:3166
• https://github.com/cpandya2909/CVE-2020-15778/
• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25005567
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202212-06
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200731-0007/
• https://www.openssh.com/security.html

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