CVE-2020-27544

CRITICAL

Folding@home Client Advanced Control GUI - Remote Code Execution via parse_message Payload

Title source: llm

Description

An issue was discovered in FoldingAtHome Client Advanced Control GUI before commit 9b619ae64443997948a36dda01b420578de1af77, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted payload to function parse_message in file Connection.py.

References (1)

Core 1

Core References

Patch

https://github.com/FoldingAtHome/fah-control/commit/9b619ae64443997948a36dda01b420578de1af77

View Patch ZIP pw:eip

Scores

CVSS v3 9.8

EPSS 0.0307

EPSS Percentile 86.9%

Attack Vector NETWORK

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

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment

Exploitation none

Automatable yes

Technical Impact total

Details

Status published

Products (1)

foldingathome/client_advanced_control < 2022-09-22

Published Aug 11, 2023

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026