CVE-2020-6162 is a critical out-of-bounds read vulnerability affecting Bftpd version 5.3, causing the daemon to crash at startup due to an uninitialized value in the hidegroups_init function. With a CVSS score of 9.1 (CRITICAL), this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network without authentication, leading to high availability impact. Despite its severity and significant community discussion, there is currently no public exploit code available, and it is not known to be actively exploited in the wild.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
5.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:bftpd_project:bftpd:5.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
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