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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.

  • Published: Jan 10, 2020
  • Updated: Nov 9, 2025
  • CVE: CVE-2020-6162
  • Severity: Critical
  • Exploit:

CVSS v3:

  • Severity: Critical
  • Score: 9.1
  • AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

CVSS v2:

  • Severity: Medium
  • Score: 5.8
  • AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

CWEs:

Software From Fixed in
bftpd_project / bftpd 5.3 5.3.x