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CVE-2020-6162

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.1 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2020-01-10 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-125

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

• Bftpd Project Bftpd: 5.3

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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