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CVE-2019-6110

Published: 31 January 2019

In OpenSSH 7.9, due to accepting and displaying arbitrary stderr output from the server, a malicious server (or Man-in-The-Middle attacker) can manipulate the client output, for example to use ANSI control codes to hide additional files being transferred.

Notes

AuthorNote
seth-arnold
openssh-ssh1 is provided for compatibility with old devices that
cannot be upgraded to modern protocols. Thus we may not provide security
support for this package if doing so would prevent access to equipment.
mdeslaur
The recommended workaround for this issue is to switch to using
sftp instead of scp.

Per https://lists.mindrot.org/pipermail/openssh-unix-dev/2019-January/037475.html
upstream doesn't consider this to be a vulnerability, and as of
2020-07-07, there is no upstream fix. We will not be fixing
this issue in Ubuntu stable releases.

Priority

Low

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.8

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
openssh
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Ignored

cosmic Ignored
(end of life)
disco Ignored
(end of life)
eoan Ignored

focal Ignored

trusty Ignored

upstream Needs triage

xenial Ignored

openssh-ssh1
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Ignored

cosmic Ignored
(end of life)
trusty Does not exist

upstream Ignored
(frozen on openssh 7.5p)
xenial Does not exist

disco Ignored
(end of life)
eoan Ignored

focal Ignored

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 6.8
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity High
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact None
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N