CVE-2020-6162 json
An issue was discovered in Bftpd 5.3.
published 2020-01-10 6 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2020-27316
- cvss
- 9.1
- version 3.1, NVD
- cisa kev
- Not listed
- not in CISA's catalog
- epss
- 1.7%
- EPSS 1.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 77%
- public exploits
- 0
- none known
Summary
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.
Exploit prediction
1.74% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 77% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).
CVSS scores
| assigned by | version | score | vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVD | 3.1 | 9.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H |
| NVD | 2.0 | 5.8 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P |
Classification
- Weakness
-
- CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read
References
-
bftpd.sourceforge.net
/news.html
release-notes, vendor-advisory
-
fossies.org
/linux/bftpd/CHANGELOG
release-notes, third-party-advisory
Sources
- CVE List CVE-2020-6162
- NVD CVE-2020-6162
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