CVE-2020-36617CWE-908

ewxrjk sftpserver parse.c sftp_parse_path uninitialized pointer

Medium · published December 18, 2022

CVSS v3.1
4.6
EPSS
1%
Percentile
47.6
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
4.6 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00591 · 47.6th percentile
Weakness
CWE-908 · Use of Uninitialized Resource
Published
2022-12-18T00:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 18 DEC 00:00Z
    ewxrjk sftpserver parse.c sftp_parse_path uninitialized pointer
    cvelistv5