CVE-2002-1469: Scponly

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 2.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

scponly does not properly verify the path when finding the (1) scp or (2) sftp-server programs, which could allow remote authenticated users to bypass access controls by uploading malicious programs and modifying the PATH variable in $HOME/.ssh/environment to locate those programs.

Affected products

• Scponly Scponly: version 2.3 only; version 2.4 only

Published 2003-04-22. Last modified 2026-06-16.