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CVE-2020-12062

HIGH · CVSS 7.5 EPSS 2.27% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2020-06-01 · Last synced 2026-08-04

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CVE
CVE-2020-12062
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.5
EPSS
2.27%

Original NVD Description

The scp client in OpenSSH 8.2 incorrectly sends duplicate responses to the server upon a utimes system call failure, which allows a malicious unprivileged user on the remote server to overwrite arbitrary files in the client's download directory by creating a crafted subdirectory anywhere on the remote server. The victim must use the command scp -rp to download a file hierarchy containing, anywhere inside, this crafted subdirectory. NOTE: the vendor points out that "this attack can achieve no more than a hostile peer is already able to achieve within the scp protocol" and "utimes does not fail under normal circumstances.

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