A vulnerability was discovered in JSch that allows a malicious sftp server to force a client-side relative path traversal in jsch's implementation for recursive sftp-get. An attacker could leverage this to write files outside the client's download basedir with effective permissions of the jsch sftp client process.
Find out more about CVE-2016-5725 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
| Base Score | 2.6 |
|---|---|
| Base Metrics | AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |
| Access Vector | Network |
| Access Complexity | High |
| Authentication | None |
| Confidentiality Impact | None |
| Integrity Impact | Partial |
| Availability Impact | None |
| CVSS3 Base Score | 4.2 |
|---|---|
| CVSS3 Base Metrics | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N |
| Attack Vector | Network |
| Attack Complexity | High |
| Privileges Required | High |
| User Interaction | Required |
| Scope | Unchanged |
| Confidentiality | None |
| Integrity Impact | High |
| Availability Impact | None |
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| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat JBoss A-MQ 6.3 | RHSA-2017:3115 | 2017-11-02 |
| Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6.3 | RHSA-2017:3115 | 2017-11-02 |
| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Virtualization 4 | jsch | Will not fix |
| Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux | rh-java-common-jsch | Not affected |
| Red Hat Satellite 6 | jsch | Will not fix |
| Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 2 | jsch | Will not fix |
| Red Hat JBoss Operations Network 3 | jsch | Not affected |
| Red Hat JBoss Fuse Service Works 6 | jsch | Will not fix |
| Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization 6 | jsch | Will not fix |
| Red Hat JBoss BRMS 6 | jsch | Will not fix |
| Red Hat JBoss BPMS 6 | jsch | Will not fix |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | jsch | Not affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | jsch | Not affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | jsch | Not affected |
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