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GHSA-55PF-9MRW-9459

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-12-18 15:30 – Updated: 2022-12-22 21:30

Details

** DISPUTED ** A vulnerability was found in ewxrjk sftpserver. It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is the function sftp_parse_path of the file parse.c. The manipulation leads to uninitialized pointer. The real existence of this vulnerability is still doubted at the moment. The name of the patch is bf4032f34832ee11d79aa60a226cc018e7ec5eed. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. The identifier VDB-216205 was assigned to this vulnerability. NOTE: In some deployment models this would be a vulnerability. README specifically warns about avoiding such deployment models.

Severity ?

9.8 (Critical)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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CVE-2020-36617 (GCVE-0-2020-36617)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-12-18 00:00 – Updated: 2025-04-15 13:00

Summary

A vulnerability was found in ewxrjk sftpserver. It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is the function sftp_parse_path of the file parse.c. The manipulation leads to uninitialized pointer. The real existence of this vulnerability is still doubted at the moment. The name of the patch is bf4032f34832ee11d79aa60a226cc018e7ec5eed. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. The identifier VDB-216205 was assigned to this vulnerability. NOTE: In some deployment models this would be a vulnerability. README specifically warns about avoiding such deployment models.

Severity ?

4.6 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

CWE

CWE-908 - Uninitialized Resource -> CWE-824 Uninitialized Pointer

Assigner

VulDB

References

URL

Tags

	https://github.com/ewxrjk/sftpserver/commit/bf403…
	https://vuldb.com/?id.216205

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	ewxrjk	sftpserver	Affected: n/a

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Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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GHSA-55PF-9MRW-9459

CVE-2020-36617 (GCVE-0-2020-36617)

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