CVE-2019-6110

medium

Description

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.

References

https://sintonen.fi/advisories/scp-client-multiple-vulnerabilities.txt

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190213-0001/

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201903-16

https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-412672.pdf

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/46193/

https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/src/usr.bin/ssh/scp.c

https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/src/usr.bin/ssh/progressmeter.c

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2019-01-31

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.20906