OS Command Injection in rssh - CVE-2019-1000018
Published: January 31, 2019
Vulnerability identifier: #VU17336
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P/U:Amber
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-1000018
CWE-ID: CWE-78
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: rssh.sourceforge.net
Affected software:
rssh
rssh
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary shell commands on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to improper validation in the scp support. A remote unauthenticated attacker can perform only scp, sftp, cvs, svnserve (Subversion), rdist and/or rsync operations and execute arbitrary OS commands on the target system.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.
How to mitigate CVE-2019-1000018
Install updates from vendor's website.