CVEvulnerability

CVE-1999-0911

10.0 HIGH Published 1999-08-27 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
1999-08-27
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
10.0 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Description

Buffer overflow in ProFTPD, wu-ftpd, and beroftpd allows remote attackers to gain root access via a series of MKD and CWD commands that create nested directories.

Affected configurations

• proftpd project proftpd 1.2 pre1 • proftpd project proftpd 1.2 pre2 • proftpd project proftpd 1.2 pre3 • proftpd project proftpd 1.2 pre4 • proftpd project proftpd 1.2 pre5

References