CVE-2020-6162: Bftpd Project Bftpd

Critical severity, CVSS 9.1. EPSS: 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in Bftpd 5.3. Under certain circumstances, an out-of-bounds read is triggered due to an uninitialized value. The daemon crashes at startup in the hidegroups_init function in dirlist.c.

Affected products

• Bftpd Project Bftpd: version 5.3 only

Published 2020-01-10. Last modified 2026-06-17.