CVE-2020-6162
CRITICAL
9.1
CVSS Score
Published: January 10, 2020 at 04:43 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 03:22 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorBftpd
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Severity
CRITICAL9.1
Exploit prediction
EPSS 2%
Description
An issue was discovered in Bftpd 5.3. Under certain circumstances, an out-of-bounds read is triggered due to an uninitialized value. The daemon crashes at startup in the hidegroups_init function in dirlist.c.
Affected
Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
Patch and advisory references
References (2)
x_refsource_CONFIRMRelease NotesVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://bftpd.sourceforge.net/news.htmlx_refsource_CONFIRMRelease NotesThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://fossies.org/linux/bftpd/CHANGELOGCVSS
- Attack Vector
- NETWORK
- Complexity
- LOW
- Privileges
- NONE
- User Interaction
- NONE
- Scope
- UNCHANGED
- Confidentiality
- HIGH
- Integrity
- NONE
- Availability
- HIGH
Vector?
Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-125
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