VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE
CVE-2016-20046
CVSS score8.6 HIGH
EPSS probability0.15%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2026-03-28
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Description
zFTP Client 20061220+dfsg3-4.1 contains a buffer overflow vulnerability in the NAME parameter handling of FTP connections that allows local attackers to crash the application or execute arbitrary code. Attackers can supply an oversized NAME value exceeding the 80-byte buffer allocated in strcpy_chk to overwrite the instruction pointer and execute shellcode with user privileges.
Weakness classification
- CWE-787: Out-of-bounds Write