CVE detail

CVE-2020-12062 — CVE-2020-12062

Published 2020-06-01 · Modified 2026-06-17 · Vendor openbsd · Product openssh · Source nvd
HIGH
severity
CVSS-derived band
7.5
CVSS v3
0–10 scale
0.0227
EPSS probability
exploitation probability, 30d
81.0%
EPSS percentile
percentile vs all CVEs
NOT LISTED
CISA KEV
known exploited catalog

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.

Remediation

No vendor-published fix data in our corpus for this CVE. Check the references below or the vendor's PSIRT / security advisories page.

References

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