CVE-2020-6162

CRITICAL

Bftpd 5.3 - Memory Corruption

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Release Notes, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
http://bftpd.sourceforge.net/news.html
Release Notes, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://fossies.org/linux/bftpd/CHANGELOG

Scores

CVSS v3 9.1
EPSS 0.0057
EPSS Percentile 68.6%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-125
Status published
Products (1)
bftpd_project/bftpd 5.3
Published Jan 10, 2020
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026