CVE-2020-36617 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

A vulnerability was found in ewxrjk sftpserver. It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is the function sftp_parse_path of the file parse.c. The manipulation leads to uninitialized pointer. The real existence of this vulnerability is still doubted at the moment. The name of the patch is bf4032f34832ee11d79aa60a226cc018e7ec5eed. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. The identifier VDB-216205 was assigned to this vulnerability. NOTE: In some deployment models this would be a vulnerability. README specifically warns about avoiding such deployment models.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Adjacent Network

Attack Complexity High

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact Low

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Greenend	Sftpserver

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:greenend:sftpserver:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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References

Link	Providers
https://github.com/ewxrjk/sftpserver/commit/bf4032f34832ee11d79aa60a226cc018e7ec5eed
https://vuldb.com/?id.216205

History

Tue, 15 Apr 2025 14:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: VulDB

Published: 2022-12-18T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-04-15T13:00:32.815Z

Reserved: 2022-12-18T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2020-36617

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-04T17:30:08.614Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-12-18T15:15:09.950

Modified: 2024-11-21T05:29:54.057

Link: CVE-2020-36617

Redhat

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