CVE-2019-6109
high
CVSS v3
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CVSS v2
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VIR risk
8.0
Description
An issue was discovered in OpenSSH 7.9. Due to missing character encoding in the progress display, a malicious server (or Man-in-The-Middle attacker) can employ crafted object names to manipulate the client output, e.g., by using ANSI control codes to hide additional files being transferred. This affects refresh_progress_meter() in progressmeter.c.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-6109
Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-6109.html
Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201904-11
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| arch | fixed | 8.0p1-1 | |
| sles | affected | | |
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 1:7.9p1-6 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 1:7.9p1-6 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 1:7.9p1-6 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 1:7.9p1-6 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 1:7.9p1-6 |
References
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.