CVE-2020-37066: Goldwave

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

GoldWave 5.70 contains a buffer overflow vulnerability that allows attackers to execute arbitrary code by crafting malicious input in the File Open URL dialog. Attackers can generate a specially crafted text file with Unicode-encoded shellcode to trigger a stack-based overflow and execute commands when the file is opened.

Affected products

• Goldwave Goldwave: version 5.70 only

Published 2026-02-03. Last modified 2026-06-17.