High
Security advisory
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."
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2020-15778
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 04:29 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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."
osv:CVE-2020-15778
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:19.019888502Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-398330.html",
"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:3166",
"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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