FKIE_CVE-2025-68920

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-12-24 22:15 - Updated: 2026-10-07 13:10
Severity
8.9 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L
Summary
C-Kermit (aka ckermit) through 10.0 Beta.12 (aka 416-beta12) before 244644d allows a remote Kermit system to overwrite files on the local system, or retrieve arbitrary files from the local system.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1123025
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/KermitProject/ckermit/pull/20
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.complete.org/kermit/
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.kermitproject.org/ftp/kermit/test/tar/
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
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  "id": "CVE-2025-68920",
  "lastModified": "2026-10-07T13:10:00.713",
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          "confidentialityImpact": "HIGH",
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