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CVE-2020-15690 (GCVE-0-2020-15690)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-01-30 05:12 – Updated: 2024-08-04 13:22
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Summary
In Nim before 1.2.6, the standard library asyncftpclient lacks a check for whether a message contains a newline character.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
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