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Vulnerability details: VCID-wuje-5ebg-zuaw
Vulnerability ID VCID-wuje-5ebg-zuaw
Aliases CVE-2020-9272
Summary ProFTPD 1.3.7 has an out-of-bounds (OOB) read vulnerability in mod_cap via the cap_text.c cap_to_text function.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 6.8
Risk 3.4
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (1)
CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read
System Score Found at
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cvssv2 5.0 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-9272
cvssv3.1 7.5 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-9272
Reference id Reference type URL
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00002.html
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-9272
https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-679335.pdf
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-9272
https://github.com/proftpd/proftpd/blob/master/RELEASE_NOTES
https://github.com/proftpd/proftpd/issues/902
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-35
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CVE-2020-9272 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-9272
No exploits are available.
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-9272
Exploitability (E) Access Vector (AV) Access Complexity (AC) Authentication (Au) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

high

functional

unproven

proof_of_concept

not_defined

local

adjacent_network

network

high

medium

low

multiple

single

none

none

partial

complete

none

partial

complete

none

partial

complete
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-9272
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

adjacent_network

local

physical

low

high

none

low

high

none

required

unchanged

changed

high

low

none

high

low

none

high

low

none
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.65191
EPSS Score 0.00505
Published At July 30, 2025, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2025-07-31T10:08:52.360607+00:00 NVD Importer Import https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-9272 37.0.0