CVEvulnerability

CVE-1999-0997

7.5 HIGH Published 1999-12-20 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
1999-12-20
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

wu-ftp with FTP conversion enabled allows an attacker to execute commands via a malformed file name that is interpreted as an argument to the program that does the conversion, e.g. tar or uncompress.

Affected configurations

• millenux gmbh anonftp 2.8.1 • university of washington wu-ftpd 2.4.2 • university of washington wu-ftpd 2.5.0 • university of washington wu-ftpd 2.6.0 • redhat linux 5.2 • redhat linux 6.0 • redhat linux 6.1

References