5
CVSSv2

CVE-2001-1501

Published: 31/12/2001 Updated: 10/09/2008
CVSS v2 Base Score: 5 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 10
VMScore: 505
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

The glob functionality in ProFTPD 1.2.1, and possibly other versions allows remote malicious users to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) via commands with large numbers of wildcard and other special characters, as demonstrated using an ls command with multiple (1) "*/..", (2) "*/.*", or (3) ".*./*?/" sequences in the argument.

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proftpd project proftpd 1.2.1

Exploits

source: wwwsecurityfocuscom/bid/2496/info Many FTP servers are vulnerable to a denial of service condition resulting from poor globbing algorithms and user resource usage limits Globbing generates pathnames from file name patterns used by the shell, eg wildcards denoted by * and ?, multiple choices denoted by {}, etc The vulnerable F ...