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Command Injection using malicious hostname in expanded proxycommand

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Subject: Security weakness in ProxyCommand handling CVE ID#: CVE-2023-6004 Versions: 0.10.x, 0.9.x, 0.8.x Summary: ProxyCommand/ProxyJump features enable to inject malicious code through hostname Description Using the ProxyCommand or the ProxyJump feature enables users to exploit unchecked hostname syntax on the client, which enables to inject malicious code into the command of the above-mentioned features through the hostname parameter. User interaction is required to exploit this issue. Credits Originally reported by Vinci (https:// github.com/vin01). Patches provided by Norbert Pocs of the libssh team. Full Security Advisory: https://www.libssh.org/security/advisories/CVE-2023-6004.txt

Reported by vx01

Vulnerability Details

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Code Injection
Using the ProxyCommand or the ProxyJump feature enables users to exploit unchecked hostname syntax on the client, which enables to inject malicious code into the command of the above-mentioned features through the hostname parameter. User interaction is required to exploit this issue. Advisory from libssh: https://www.libssh.org/security/advisories/CVE-2023-6004.txt Advisory from OpenSSH which also suffered from this flaw: https://www.openssh.com/txt/release-9.6 ## Impact Code execution via malicious input hostname or other tokens

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Associated Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

A flaw was found in libssh. By utilizing the ProxyCommand or ProxyJump feature, users can exploit unchecked hostname syntax on the client. This issue may allow an attacker to inject malicious code into the command of the features mentioned through the hostname parameter.

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State

Closed

Substate

Resolved

Bounty

$540.00

Submitted

Weakness

Code Injection