CVEvulnerability

CVE-1999-1326

5.0 MEDIUM Published 1997-07-04 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
1997-07-04
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Description

wu-ftpd 2.4 FTP server does not properly drop privileges when an ABOR (abort file transfer) command is executed during a file transfer, which causes a signal to be handled incorrectly and allows local and possibly remote attackers to read arbitrary files.

Affected configurations

• washington university wu-ftpd 2.4

Related

Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)

  • CWE-271 Privilege Dropping / Lowering Errors weakness

References