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Fencer Vulns
high 8.2

CVE-2020-6105 json

An exploitable code execution vulnerability exists in the multiple devices functionality of F2fs-Tools F2fs.Fsck 1.13.

published 2020-10-15 6 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2020-27259

cvss
8.2
version 3.0, CNA
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

An exploitable code execution vulnerability exists in the multiple devices functionality of F2fs-Tools F2fs.Fsck 1.13. A specially crafted f2fs filesystem can cause Information overwrite resulting in a code execution. An attacker can provide a malicious file to trigger this vulnerability.

Patch / fix

  • f2fs-tools_project f2fs-tools 1.14.0
  • f2fs-tools Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.14.0-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2020-6105

  • f2fs-tools Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +9 more 1.14.0-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2020-6105

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org 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-2020-6105 updated cvss 8.2

f2fs-tools: specially crafted f2fs filesystem can cause Information overwrite resulting in a code execution

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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

2.10% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 81% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • talosintelligence.com https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2020-1047 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.0 8.2 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 3.1 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products

  • n/a F2fs-Tools

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-73 External Control of File Name or Path
  • CWE-610 Externally Controlled Reference to a Resource in Another Sphere

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.