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CVE-2019-6109

25
FAUCET Score

CVE-2019-6109 is a medium-severity vulnerability in OpenSSH 7.9, affecting various products including Debian, Red Hat, and WinSCP. A malicious server or Man-in-The-Middle attacker can exploit missing character encoding in the progress display to manipulate client output using ANSI control codes, potentially hiding additional files during transfer. The attack requires user interaction and has high impact on confidentiality and integrity, but high attack complexity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion or media coverage for this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 7.9CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openbsd:openssh:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 5.13CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:winscp:winscp:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
14.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
16.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
18.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.8MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
1.6
Impact Score
5.2
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.81%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
88.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0381 is in the 92nd percentile among its peer group of 705 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.2 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

oraclepatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: openssh-0:8.0p1-3.el8
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: openssh

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2019-6109Low

openssh: Missing character encoding in progress display allows for spoofing of scp client output

Nov 16, 2018

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00058.html
Broken Link
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2019:3702
Third Party Advisory
cert-portal.siemens.com / productcert/pdf/ssa-412672.pdf
PatchThird Party Advisory
cvsweb.openbsd.org / src/usr.bin/ssh/progressmeter.c
Release NotesVendor Advisory
cvsweb.openbsd.org / src/usr.bin/ssh/scp.c
Release NotesVendor Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00030.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/W3YVQ2BPTOVDCFDVNC2GGF5P5ISFG37G
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201903-16
Third Party Advisory
security.netapp.com / advisory/ntap-20190213-0001
Third Party Advisory
sintonen.fi / advisories/scp-client-multiple-vulnerabilities.txt
Third Party Advisory
usn.ubuntu.com / 3885-1
Third Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2019/dsa-4387
Third Party Advisory
oracle.com / technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2019-5072832.html
PatchThird Party Advisory