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CVE-2020-9272

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2020-02-20 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-125

Description

ProFTPD 1.3.7 has an out-of-bounds (OOB) read vulnerability in mod_cap via the cap_text.c cap_to_text function.

Affected products

• openSUSE Backports Sle: 15.0, 15.0-sp1
• openSUSE Leap: 15.1
• ProFTPD: before 1.3.6c — fixed in 1.3.6c
• Siemens Simatic Net Cp 1543-1 Firmware: before 3.0 — fixed in 3.0
• Siemens Simatic Net Cp 1545-1 Firmware: all versions

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: ProFTPD 1.3.6c; Siemens Simatic Net Cp 1543-1 Firmware 3.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00002.html
• https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-679335.pdf
• https://github.com/proftpd/proftpd/blob/master/RELEASE_NOTES
• https://github.com/proftpd/proftpd/issues/902
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-35
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00002.html
• https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-679335.pdf
• https://github.com/proftpd/proftpd/blob/master/RELEASE_NOTES
• https://github.com/proftpd/proftpd/issues/902
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-35

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