Remote code execution via oversized FTP response
Published Dec 10, 2025 · Updated Dec 10, 2025
Stack buffer overflow in ftpclient.cgi in Sony IPELA Network Camera 1.82.01 allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code. After an authenticated POST directs the camera's FTP client to an attacker-controlled server, ftpclient.cgi copies an oversized FTP response into a fixed stack buffer without enforcing its boundary. Exploitation requires access to the camera's FTP client settings and control of the configured FTP server; the overflow can execute code or crash the camera.
Summary
What happened
Stack buffer overflow in ftpclient.cgi in Sony IPELA Network Camera 1.82.01 allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code. After an authenticated POST directs the camera's FTP client to an attacker-controlled server, ftpclient.cgi copies an oversized FTP response into a fixed stack buffer without enforcing its boundary. Exploitation requires access to the camera's FTP client settings and control of the configured FTP server; the overflow can execute code or crash the camera.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2020-36885
- Published
- Dec 10, 2025
- Updated
- Dec 10, 2025
- Vendor
- Sony Group Corporation
- Product
- Sony IPELA Network Camera
- Classifications
- CWE-787, T1190
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Dec 10, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Dec 10, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=0 <=1.82.01
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Public exploit references
- Sony IPELA ftpclient.cgi overflow proof of conceptproof of concept · demonstrated
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