CVE-2020-5208

high
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
8.0

Description

It's been found that multiple functions in ipmitool before 1.8.19 neglect proper checking of the data received from a remote LAN party, which may lead to buffer overflows and potentially to remote code execution on the ipmitool side. This is especially dangerous if ipmitool is run as a privileged user. This problem is fixed in version 1.8.19.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-5208

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-5208.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-202102-39

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed1.8.18-7
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed1.8.18-10.1
debian debianbullseyefixed1.8.18-10.1
debian debianforkyfixed1.8.18-10.1
debian debiansidfixed1.8.18-10.1
debian debiantrixiefixed1.8.18-10.1

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.