VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2019-6110

CVSS score6.8 MEDIUM
EPSS probability24.90%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2019-01-31
Last modified2026-10-14
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

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.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-838: Inappropriate Encoding for Output Context

Primary references