CVE detail

CVE-2016-20046 — CVE-2016-20046

Published 2026-03-28 · Modified 2026-06-17 · Source nvd

HIGH

severity

CVSS-derived band

8.4

CVSS v3

0–10 scale

0.0015

EPSS probability

exploitation probability, 30d

5.0%

EPSS percentile

percentile vs all CVEs

NOT LISTED

CISA KEV

known exploited catalog

Description

zFTP Client 20061220+dfsg3-4.1 contains a buffer overflow vulnerability in the NAME parameter handling of FTP connections that allows local attackers to crash the application or execute arbitrary code. Attackers can supply an oversized NAME value exceeding the 80-byte buffer allocated in strcpy_chk to overwrite the instruction pointer and execute shellcode with user privileges.

Remediation

No vendor-published fix data in our corpus for this CVE. Check the references below or the vendor's PSIRT / security advisories page.

References

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