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CVE-2020-27544

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2023-08-11 · updated 2026-06-17

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.

Affected products

• Foldingathome Client Advanced Control: before 2022-09-22 — fixed in 2022-09-22

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Foldingathome Client Advanced Control 2022-09-22. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

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

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