VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2020-6162
Under certain circumstances, an out-of-bounds read is triggered due to an uninitialized value.
CRITICAL 9.1EPSS 1.74%
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.74%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
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.
- CVSS 3.1
- 9.1 CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 1.74% probability · 76th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-125
- Affected
- bftpd project/bftpd
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- http://bftpd.sourceforge.net/news.htmlRelease Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://fossies.org/linux/bftpd/CHANGELOGRelease Notes, Third Party Advisory
- http://bftpd.sourceforge.net/news.htmlRelease Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://fossies.org/linux/bftpd/CHANGELOGRelease Notes, Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.