What is CVE-2020-6162?

CVE-2020-6162 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Bftpd_project Bftpd, classified under Out-of-bounds Read. CVSS score: 9.1/10. Published 2020-01-10.

How severe is CVE-2020-6162?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.1 out of 10.

Out-of-bounds Read in Bftpd_project Bftpd

CVE-2020-6162

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.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.017 (74.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.1 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Bftpd_project Bftpd — versions 5.3
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-125 — Out-of-bounds Read

References

cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Release Notes, Vendor Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Third Party Advisory, Release Notes)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-6162?: CVE-2020-6162 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Bftpd_project Bftpd, classified under Out-of-bounds Read. CVSS score: 9.1/10. Published 2020-01-10.
How severe is CVE-2020-6162?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.1 out of 10.