CVE-2020-15778

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."

CVSS 3.1

7.4CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS

14% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 96% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-25)

CWE

CWE-78

Published

2020-07-24

Modified

2026-10-14

Record from

the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

• broadcom:fabric_operating_system
• netapp:a700s_firmware
• netapp:active_iq_unified_manager
• netapp:hci_compute_node
• netapp:hci_management_node
• netapp:hci_storage_node
• netapp:solidfire
• netapp:steelstore_cloud_integrated_storage
• openbsd:openssh

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/

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