CVE-2020-36617

CRITICALNVD 4.69.8
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

“▲” beside the score: it is higher than NVD's CVSS score.

Score 9.8 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: CRITICAL) published 2022-12-18. NVD baseline CVSS 4.6; sources differ by 5.2.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, NVD CVSS v3
Trending — 3 sources updated this week
9.8EG
EchelonGraph verdictMonitorRemediate within your standard update timelines (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • Lower severity and no public exploit yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.6%CVSS: 4.6Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

An upstream fix is merged but not yet released — mitigate (WAF / firewall / segmentation) until the release ships, then apply it.

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.

CVSS v3
4.6
EG Score
9.8CRITICALmedium confidence
EG Risk
44
EG Risk 44/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity98% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 9.8 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation0.6% × 40%
FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: no (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at every mission impact level.
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: An upstream fix is merged but not yet in a tagged release. Restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation within your standard update timelines until it ships, then apply the release.
EPSS PROB
0.6%
EPSS %ILE
47th
KEV
Not listed

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (9.8): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.8 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
9.8 CRITICALCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
0.6% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-22). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at every mission impact level.CISA BOD 26-04: 60 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.Each input and its source: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at every mission impact level.

An upstream fix is merged but not yet in a tagged release. Restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation within your standard update timelines until it ships, then apply the release.

Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)60 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.

In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

December 18, 2022

Last Modified

November 21, 2024

Advisory Details (1)

Auto-updated Oct 14, 2026
Upstream fix merged — awaiting tagged release. Sources: github_commit.
GitHub commit

commit bf4032f34832 (ewxrjk/sftpserver)

Fix landed in ewxrjk/sftpserver commit bf4032f34832 — awaiting tagged release

https://github.com/ewxrjk/sftpserver/commit/bf4032f34832ee11d79aa60a226cc018e7ec5eed

Weakness Classification(2)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 19× in last 7d / 48× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 99 of 195 refreshes on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. 1 repeat row among the latest 100 is merged into the row it repeats. The 96 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-10-22 20:36 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-10-22 20:36 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-55pf-9mrw-9459 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  3. 2026-10-22 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 47th percentile
  4. 2026-10-21 18:56 UTCEG score recompute
  5. 2026-10-21 18:55 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-55pf-9mrw-9459 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  6. 2026-10-21 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 47th percentile
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  8. 2026-10-20 17:13 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-55pf-9mrw-9459 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  12. 2026-10-19 15:34 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-55pf-9mrw-9459 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  13. 2026-10-18 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 47th percentile
  14. 2026-10-18 13:56 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-55pf-9mrw-9459 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  18. 2026-10-17 12:17 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-55pf-9mrw-9459 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  19. 2026-10-16 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 45th percentile
  20. 2026-10-16 10:39 UTCEG score recompute
  21. 2026-10-16 10:38 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-55pf-9mrw-9459 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  22. 2026-10-15 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 45th percentile
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  24. 2026-10-15 08:58 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-55pf-9mrw-9459 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  25. 2026-10-14 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 45th percentile
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  1. 2026-10-14 05:15 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-10-14 05:14 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-55pf-9mrw-9459 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  3. 2026-10-13 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 45th percentile
  4. 2026-10-13 00:31 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-55pf-9mrw-9459 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  5. 2026-10-12 19:35 UTCEG score recompute
  6. 2026-10-12 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 45th percentile
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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2020-36617?
CVE-2020-36617 is a critical-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on December 18, 2022. 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…
When was the CVE record for CVE-2020-36617 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2020-36617 was published on December 18, 2022. That is the record's publication date; the vulnerability itself may have been made public earlier. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of November 21, 2024; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2020-36617 actively exploited?
CVE-2020-36617 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (47th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2020-36617?
CVE-2020-36617 has a CVSS v3 base score of 4.6 (NVD). EchelonGraph synthesises NVD + CISA KEV + FIRST EPSS + GHSA into a combined EG score of 9.8 (CRITICAL).
How do I remediate CVE-2020-36617?
An upstream fix for CVE-2020-36617 has been merged but is not yet in a tagged release. Until it ships, restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation, then update to the release that contains the fix.

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