CVE-2025-68920 (GCVE-0-2025-68920)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-12-24 21:47
Modified
2025-12-24 22:43
Severity ?
8.9 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L
CWE
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.
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