CVE-2020-6162

9.1 criticalEPSS 1.7%

Critical (9.1) in bftpd project bftpd. EPSS 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

9.1 critical

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

EPSS: 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 77% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-125
Published: 2020-01-10
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

bftpd_project:bftpd

References

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

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