FKIE_CVE-2020-27544

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2023-08-11 14:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 03:09
Severity
9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
An issue was discovered in FoldingAtHome Client Advanced Control GUI before commit 9b619ae64443997948a36dda01b420578de1af77, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted payload to function parse_message in file Connection.py.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/FoldingAtHome/fah-control/commit/9b619ae64443997948a36dda01b420578de1af77Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/FoldingAtHome/fah-control/commit/9b619ae64443997948a36dda01b420578de1af77Patch
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
foldingathome client_advanced_control *
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