CVE-2016-5725

Published: 19 January 2017

Directory traversal vulnerability in JCraft JSch before 0.1.54 on Windows, when the mode is ChannelSftp.OVERWRITE, allows remote SFTP servers to write to arbitrary files via a ..\ (dot dot backslash) in a response to a recursive GET command.

Priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

5.9

Score breakdown

Status

Package	Release	Status
jsch Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	precise	Not vulnerable (only affects Windows platforms)
	trusty	Not vulnerable (only affects Windows platforms)
	upstream	Released (0.1.54-1)
	xenial	Not vulnerable (only affects Windows platforms)

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	5.9
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	High
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	None
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

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