CVE-2016-20038

yTree 1.94-1.1 Stack-Based Buffer Overflow

CVSS 8.6 HIGHEPSS 0.2%CWE-787

Vexday Risk Score

41Attention

SSVC decision (CISA)

Attend

PoC available → attend closely

Exploit maturity

Proof of concept

Public proof of concept exists, but not yet automated.

CVSS 8.6EPSS 0.2%KEV nãoPoC públicaNuclei —Metasploit —Patch —

Lifecycle

28 Mar 2026Published on NVD

Recommendation: Plan a near-term fix — a public PoC already exists.

yTree 1.94-1.1 contains a stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability that allows local attackers to execute arbitrary code by supplying an excessively long argument to the application. Attackers can craft a malicious command-line argument containing shellcode and a return address to overwrite the stack and execute code in the application context.

CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Affected products

werner · yTree

public PoCs found — 1

cve_referencewww.exploit-db.com/exploits/39406unverified

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References

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/39406 https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/ytree-stack-based-buffer-overflow http://www.han.de/~werner/ytree.html