CVE-2016-20038: Werner Ytree

High severity, CVSS 8.4. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

yTree 1.94-1.1 contains a stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability that allows local attackers to execute arbitrary code by supplying an excessively long argument to the application. Attackers can craft a malicious command-line argument containing shellcode and a return address to overwrite the stack and execute code in the application context.

Affected products

• Werner Ytree: version 1.94-1.1 only

Published 2026-03-28. Last modified 2026-06-17.