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CVE-2020-6162

CRITICAL · CVSS 9.1 EPSS 1.74%

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2020-01-10 · Last synced 2026-08-04

CyberRota Analysis

This is a critical severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 9.1. See the original NVD description below for full technical details.

CVE
CVE-2020-6162
Severity
CRITICAL
CVSS
9.1
EPSS
1.74%

Original NVD 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.

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