CVE-1999-0219

High

Published: 01/07/1997(UTC)Updated: 16/06/2026(UTC)Translated: 17/06/2026(UTC)NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Very high risk

9.33%

95th percentile - higher than 95% of all known CVEs

Buffer overflow in FTP Serv-U 2.5 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (crash) via a long CWD or LS command.

An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to remotely crash the FTP server, leading to service downtime.

It is recommended to upgrade to a newer version of FTP Serv-U that addresses this vulnerability.

Original NVD description (English source)

Buffer overflow in FTP Serv-U 2.5 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (crash) via a long (1) CWD or (2) LS (list) command.