VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2020-6162

CVSS score9.1 CRITICAL

EPSS probability1.74%

CISA KEVNot currently listed

Published2020-01-10

Last modified2026-06-17

CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

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.

Weakness classification

CWE-125: Out-of-bounds Read

Primary references

cve@mitre.org — Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.org — Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Release Notes, Third Party Advisory