CVE-2020-36617

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-36617
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-36617.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2020-36617
Published
2022-12-18T15:15:09.950Z
Modified
2026-04-11T13:53:15.474574Z
Severity
  • 9.8 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

A vulnerability was found in ewxrjk sftpserver. It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is the function sftpparsepath 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.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/ewxrjk/sftpserver

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/ewxrjk/sftpserver
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
a2b04261232d9f410b0361fbc78c771dd511f3c8
Fixed
bf4032f34832ee11d79aa60a226cc018e7ec5eed
Database specific 
{
    "versions": [
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            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "2"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

0.*
0.2
0.2.1
Other
1
coverity-2014-06-02
coverity-2014-06-14
coverity-2018-08-19

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-36617.json"
vanir_signatures_modified 
"2026-04-11T13:53:15Z"
vanir_signatures 
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        },
        "source": "https://github.com/ewxrjk/sftpserver/commit/bf4032f34832ee11d79aa60a226cc018e7ec5eed",
        "id": "CVE-2020-36617-ba4bc7a1",
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            "function": "sftp_parse_handle",
            "file": "parse.c"
        }
    },
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]