CVE-2016-5725

medium

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in JCraft JSch before 0.1.54 on Windows, when the mode is ChannelSftp.OVERWRITE, allows remote SFTP servers to write to arbitrary files via a ..\ (dot dot backslash) in a response to a recursive GET command.

References

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40411/

https://github.com/tintinweb/pub/tree/master/pocs/cve-2016-5725

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93100

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2016/Sep/53

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/138809/jsch-0.1.53-Path-Traversal.html

https://www.tenable.com/blog/oracle-april-2021-critical-patch-update-addresses-257-cves-including-zerologon-cve-2020-1472

https://www.tenable.com/blog/oracle-january-2021-critical-patch-update-five-critical-weblogic-flaws-cve-2021-2109

https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html

https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2021.html

https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuApr2021.html

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/04/msg00017.html

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3115

http://www.jcraft.com/jsch/ChangeLog

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-01-19

Updated: 2025-04-20

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N