Critical
Security advisory
The Apache NuttX (Incubating) project provides an optional separate "apps" repository which contains various optional components and example programs. One of these, ftpd, had a NULL pointer dereference bug. The NuttX RTOS itself is not affected. Users of the optional apps repository are affected only if they have enabled ftpd. Versions 6.15 to 8.2 are affected.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2020-1939
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 04:18 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
The Apache NuttX (Incubating) project provides an optional separate "apps" repository which contains various optional components and example programs. One of these, ftpd, had a NULL pointer dereference bug. The NuttX RTOS itself is not affected. Users of the optional apps repository are affected only if they have enabled ftpd. Versions 6.15 to 8.2 are affected.
osv:CVE-2020-1939
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:16.841637914Z",
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"references": [
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"source_id": "core-osv",
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"published_at": "2020-05-12T15:15:12.533+00:00"
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