# CVE-2023-35812: An issue was discovered in the Amazon Linux packages of OpenSSH 7.4 for Amazon Linux 1 and 2, because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2019-6111

- Severity: CVSS 5.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AC:H/AV:N/A:N/C:N/I:H/PR:N/S:U/UI:R
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2024-04-03 · Updated: 2025-03-25

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

An issue was discovered in the Amazon Linux packages of OpenSSH 7.4 for Amazon Linux 1 and 2, because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2019-6111 within these specific packages. The fix had only covered cases where an absolute path is passed to scp. When a relative path is used, there is no verification that the name of a file received by the client matches the file requested. Fixed packages are available with numbers 7.4p1-22.78.amzn1 and 7.4p1-22.amzn2.0.2.

## What to do

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## References

- https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2023-35812.html

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