Vulnerability · Published Jan 10, 2020 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2020-6162

Critical 9.1

In plain English

A critical-severity security flaw in the affected software. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.7% (higher than 78% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS NVD)9.1Critical

Exploit odds (30 days)1.7%top 22.2% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official 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.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

http://bftpd.sourceforge.net/news.html x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://fossies.org/linux/bftpd/CHANGELOG x_refsource_CONFIRM