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CVE-2019-18217

high · 7.5

A public exploit / detection template exists

Weaponised detection is publicly available, which meaningfully raises real-world risk regardless of CVSS. nuclei-templates

ProFTPD before 1.3.6b and 1.3.7rc before 1.3.7rc2 allows remote unauthenticated denial-of-service due to incorrect handling of overly long commands because main.c in a child process enters an infinite loop.

7.5
CVSS
19.5%
EPSS (exploit prob.)
97th
EPSS percentile
2019-10-21
Published

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weaknesses

CWE-835

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
proftpdproftpd<= 1.3.5
proftpdproftpd1.3.6
proftpdproftpd1.3.6
proftpdproftpd1.3.6
proftpdproftpd1.3.6
proftpdproftpd1.3.6
proftpdproftpd1.3.6
proftpdproftpd1.3.7

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References

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