Is CVE-2020-15778 in the CISA KEV catalog?

No. CVE-2020-15778 is not currently on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list.

What is the CVSS severity of CVE-2020-15778?

CVE-2020-15778 has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.4 (HIGH).

What is the EPSS score for CVE-2020-15778?

CVE-2020-15778 has an EPSS score of 13.00% (96th percentile), estimating the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.

CVE & CISA-KEV Catalog

CVE-2020-15778

HIGHEPSS 96th pctl

7.4

CVSS v3

NVD

Description

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."

CWE-78OS Command Injection

CVSS v3 Vector

Exploitability

Attack VectorAdjacent

Attack ComplexityLow

Privileges RequiredLow

User InteractionRequired

ScopeUnchanged

Impact

ConfidentialityHigh

IntegrityHigh

AvailabilityHigh

CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Exploit Intelligence

13.00%probability of exploitation in 30 days

96thpercentile

Very high risk: more likely to be exploited than 96% of all known CVEs.

References

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This product uses NVD data but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. EPSS scores courtesy of FIRST.org (https://www.first.org/epss). Source: CISA KEV Catalog. Data as of 2025-07-28.