CVE Catalog

CVE-1999-1058

High
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

High risk
2.34%

81th percentile - higher than 81% of all known CVEs

Summary

Buffer overflow in Vermillion FTP Daemon VFTPD 1.23 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary commands via several long CWD commands.

Risk Assessment

Attackers can exploit this vulnerability to disrupt the FTP server's operation and potentially gain unauthorized access to the system.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update to the latest version of VFTPD to mitigate this vulnerability and to monitor server logs for potential attack attempts.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

Buffer overflow in Vermillion FTP Daemon VFTPD 1.23 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, and possibly execute arbitrary commands, via several long CWD commands.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS