CVE-2020-5208: Debian Linux

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 3.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

It's been found that multiple functions in ipmitool before 1.8.19 neglect proper checking of the data received from a remote LAN party, which may lead to buffer overflows and potentially to remote code execution on the ipmitool side. This is especially dangerous if ipmitool is run as a privileged user. This problem is fixed in version 1.8.19.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only
• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 30 only; version 31 only
• Ipmitool Project Ipmitool: version 1.8.18 only
• Opensuse Leap: version 15.1 only

Published 2020-02-05. Last modified 2026-06-17.