Inappropriate Encoding for Output Context
CVE-2019-6110
Summary
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.
- HIGH
- NETWORK
- HIGH
- UNCHANGED
- REQUIRED
- NONE
- HIGH
- NONE
CWE-838 - Inappropriate Encoding for Output Context
The software uses or specifies an encoding when generating output to a downstream component, but the specified encoding is not the same as the encoding that is expected by the downstream component.
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Advisory Timeline
- Published