CVE-2020-15778

HIGHNVD 7.47.8
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

“▲” beside the score: it is higher than NVD's CVSS score.

Score 7.8 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2022-05-24. NVD baseline CVSS 7.4; sources differ by 0.4.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, NVD CVSS v3
Trending — 4 sources updated this weekElevated

Also known asEUVD-2020-7762 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-cvxm-8hgf-6m6m (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

7.8EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixRemediate within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • Public exploit or proof-of-concept code is available
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 14%CVSS: 7.4Exploit: Public PoCExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

scp in OpenSSH through 8.3p1 allows command injection in the scp.c toremote function, as demonstrated by backtick characters in the destination argument. NOTE: the vendor reportedly has stated that they intentionally omit validation of "anomalous argument transfers" because that could "stand a great chance of breaking existing workflows."

CVSS v3
7.4
EG Score
7.8HIGHmedium confidence
EG Risk
51
EG Risk 51/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity78% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 7.8 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation40% × 40%
EchelonGraph's fixed weight for EG-KEV Tier 3 (Elevated): a constant, not a probability.
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: no (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.
Exploitation public PoC (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.
EPSS PROB
14%
EPSS %ILE
96th
KEV
Not listed

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (7.8): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 7.8 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
7.8 HIGHCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
14% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-28). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Track* at medium mission impactTrack at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.CISA BOD 26-04: 14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.

Exploitation public PoC (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.

The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

July 24, 2020

Last Modified

October 14, 2026

Advisory Details (7)

Auto-updated Oct 14, 2026
Patch available. Sources: redhat.
Web pageMentions a patch (unverified)

SSA-398330

https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-398330.html
Red HatMentions a patch (unverified)

Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:3166
Web page

OpenSSH: Multiple Vulnerabilities (GLSA 202212-06) — Gentoo security

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202212-06
Web page

Deprecating scp | Hacker News

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25005567
Web page

GitHub - cpandya2909/CVE-2020-15778 · GitHub

https://github.com/cpandya2909/CVE-2020-15778/
Web page

OpenSSH: Security

https://www.openssh.com/security.html

Patch Availability(1)

Vendor / EcosystemFix (by version range) / PatchReleasedSource
redhatopenssh-0:8.0p1-24.el82024-05-22redhat

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Affected Packages

(10 across 10 ecosystems)
Alpine:v3.19(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
openssh—
  • every version up to 8.3_p1-r0: fixed in 8.3_p1-r0
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Alpine:v3.20(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
openssh—
  • every version up to 8.3_p1-r0: fixed in 8.3_p1-r0
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Alpine:v3.21(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
openssh—
  • every version up to 8.3_p1-r0: fixed in 8.3_p1-r0
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Alpine:v3.22(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
openssh—
  • every version up to 8.3_p1-r0: fixed in 8.3_p1-r0
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Alpine:v3.23(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
openssh—
  • every version up to 8.3_p1-r0: fixed in 8.3_p1-r0
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Alpine:v3.24(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
openssh—
  • every version up to 8.3_p1-r0: fixed in 8.3_p1-r0
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Debian:11(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
openssh1:10.0p1-1 ... 1:9.9p2-2 (86 versions)
  • every version on: no fix on record
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Debian:12(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
openssh1:10.0p1-1 ... 1:9.9p2-2 (77 versions)
  • every version on: no fix on record
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Debian:13(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
openssh1:10.0p1-7 ... 1:10.5p1-1 (31 versions)
  • every version on: no fix on record
—
Debian:14(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
openssh1:10.0p1-7 ... 1:10.5p1-1 (27 versions)
  • every version on: no fix on record
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Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Additional Vendor Advisories

(1)

Vendors that published advisories for this CVE beyond the curated set above. Broader coverage but minimal per-row detail — click through for the original advisory.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 10× in last 7d / 44× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 97 of 181 refreshes on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. 3 repeat rows among the latest 100 are merged into the row they repeat. The 84 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

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  7. 2026-10-28 22:22 UTCVendor advisory
  8. 2026-10-28 22:22 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cvxm-8hgf-6m6m · GitHub CVSS 7.8
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  20. 2026-10-21 15:12 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cvxm-8hgf-6m6m · GitHub CVSS 7.8
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  4. 2026-10-14 10:27 UTCVendor advisory
  5. 2026-10-14 10:26 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cvxm-8hgf-6m6m · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  6. 2026-10-14 09:43 UTCEG score recompute
  7. 2026-10-14 09:43 UTCVendor advisory
  8. 2026-10-14 09:42 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cvxm-8hgf-6m6m · GitHub CVSS 7.8
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Publicly available exploits

(4 references)

Public exploit code is referenced for this CVE (3 GitHub PoCs), as is 1 GitHub checker repository. A GitHub repository named or described as a checker or scanner checks whether a system is affected; it is not necessarily exploit code. Defenders should treat patch urgency accordingly.

  • GitHub checkerdrackyjr/CVE-2020-15778-SCP-Command-Injection-Check
    Published Jul 28, 2025

    This script is a safe and simple tool that helps system users, students, and administrators check if their SCP (Secure Copy) client is vulnerable to CVE-2020-15778, a command injection vulnerability in OpenSSH SCP (versions ≤ 8.3p1).

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCyifanzhg/CVE-2020-15778
    Published Sep 27, 2023
    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCNeko-chanQwQ/CVE-2020-15778-Exploit
    Published Jul 15, 2021

    Exploit for CVE-2020-15778(OpenSSH vul)

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCcpandya2909/CVE-2020-15778
    Published Jul 18, 2020
    Open source ↗

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2020-15778?
CVE-2020-15778 is a high-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on July 24, 2020. scp in OpenSSH through 8.3p1 allows command injection in the scp.c toremote function, as demonstrated by backtick characters in the destination argument. NOTE: the vendor reportedly has stated that they intentionally omit validation of "anomalous argument transfers" because that could "stand a…
When was the CVE record for CVE-2020-15778 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2020-15778 was published on July 24, 2020. That is the record's publication date; the vulnerability itself may have been made public earlier. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of October 14, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2020-15778 actively exploited?
CVE-2020-15778 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 14% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (96th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2020-15778?
CVE-2020-15778 has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.4 (NVD). EchelonGraph synthesises NVD + FIRST EPSS + GHSA into a combined EG score of 7.8 (HIGH).
How do I remediate CVE-2020-15778?
A fix for CVE-2020-15778 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2020-15778 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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