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scponly Security Bypass Arbitrary Command Execution Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA13364
Release Date: 2004-12-03
Last Update: 2004-12-10
Popularity: 7,819 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Security Bypass
Where: Local system
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:scponly 3.x

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Description:
Jason Wies has reported a vulnerability in scponly, which can be exploited by malicious users to bypass certain security restrictions.

The problem is that some of the predefined applications support flags, which allow command execution. This can be exploited to bypass the shell restriction and execute arbitrary commands.

The following applications are reportedly affected:
* scp -S [command]
* rsync -e [command]
* unison -rshcmd [command]
* unison -sshcmd [command]

The vulnerability affects versions prior to 4.0.

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