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medium 5.9

CVE-2019-7282 json

In NetKit through 0.17, rcp.c in the rcp client allows remote rsh servers to bypass intended access restrictions via the filename of . or a…

published 2019-01-31 7 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2019-16826

cvss
5.9
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.1%
EPSS 2.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 81%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

In NetKit through 0.17, rcp.c in the rcp client allows remote rsh servers to bypass intended access restrictions via the filename of . or an empty filename. The impact is modifying the permissions of the target directory on the client side. This is similar to CVE-2018-20685.

Patch / fix

  • netkit-rsh Debian 12 0.17-20

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2019-7282

  • netkit-rsh Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 0.17-17ubuntu0.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2019-7282

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2019-7282 updated cvss 5.9

netkit-rsh: rcp access restriction bypass

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 rsh, rsh-server Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 rsh, rsh-server
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

2.07% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 81% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • bugs.debian.org https://bugs.debian.org/920486 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 5.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

References

Sources

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