High severity · published Jan 31, 2019
CVE-2019-7283
An issue was discovered in rcp in NetKit through 0.17
7.4
CVSS
1.8%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
An issue was discovered in rcp in NetKit through 0.17. For an rcp operation, the server chooses which files/directories are sent to the client. However, the rcp client only performs cursory validation of the object name returned. A malicious rsh server (or Man-in-The-Middle attacker) can overwrite arbitrary files in a directory on the rcp client machine. This is similar to CVE-2019-6111.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
High
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.8% · higher than 78% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
9.0 · source: NVD
NE
Netkit · Netkit
through 0.17 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-7283
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-7283
Exploit
https://bugs.debian.org/920486
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/11/msg00016.html
Mitigation
https://sintonen.fi/advisories/scp-client-multiple-vulnerabilities.txt
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