9550 : OpenSSH scp Traversal Arbitrary File Overwrite
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Last Modified

about 1 year ago

Percent Complete

90%

Disclosure

Apr 06, 2004

Discovery

Unknown

Dates

Exploit

Unknown

Solution

Unknown

Keywords

SCOSA-2005.49

Description

OpenSSH contains a flaw that may allow a context-dependent attacker to overwrite arbitrary files on a remote system. The issue is due to the scp utility not properly sanitizing file copy requests which could allow a remote server to overwrite arbitrary files on the target system.

Classification

Location: Local Access Required
Attack Type: Input Manipulation
Impact: Loss of Integrity, Loss of Availability
Exploit: Exploit Rumored

Solution

Upgrade to version 3.4p1 or higher, as it has been reported to fix this vulnerability. An upgrade is required as there are no known workarounds.

Products

OpenBSD
Watch-list
OpenSSH
Watch-list
3.4

References

Tools & Filters

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Credit

Unknown or Incomplete

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 4.3
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2003-12-31 | Disagree?

Access_vector_2 Access_complexity_1 Authentication_2 Confidentiality_impact_0 Integrity_impact_1 Availability_impact_0

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