7.5high

CVE-2002-14691 exploit

scponly does not properly verify the path when finding the (1) scp or (2) sftp-server programs, which could allow remote authenticated user…

Published 23 y ago · modified 4 mo ago · JSON

CVSS
7.5
v2.0 · NVD
CISA KEV
No
not known exploited
EPSS
2.9%
percentile 87%
Public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

scponly does not properly verify the path when finding the (1) scp or (2) sftp-server programs, which could allow remote authenticated users to bypass access controls by uploading malicious programs and modifying the PATH variable in $HOME/.ssh/environment to locate those programs.

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

2.86% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 87% of all scored CVEs.

Exploits and detections

  • EDB-21732 SCPOnly 2.3/2.4 - SSH Environment Shell Escaping · local · 2002-08-20

CVSS scores

Assigned byVersionScoreVector
NVD2.07.5AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

References

Sources

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