Spoofing attack in WinSCP - CVE-2019-6109

 

Spoofing attack in WinSCP - CVE-2019-6109

Published: January 15, 2019


Vulnerability identifier: #VU16990
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-6109
CWE-ID: CWE-451
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: winscp.sourceforge.net
Affected software:
WinSCP

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to conduct spoofing attack on the target system.

The weakness exists due to accepting and displaying arbitrary stderr output from the scp server by the scp client. A malicious SCP server can use the object name to manipulate the client output, for example to employ ANSI codes to hide additional files being transferred.

How to mitigate CVE-2019-6109

Update to version 5.14.

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