CVEvulnerability

CVE-2001-1501

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2001-12-31 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2001-12-31
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Description

The glob functionality in ProFTPD 1.2.1, and possibly other versions allows remote attackers 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.

Affected configurations

• proftpd project proftpd 1.2.1

Related

Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)

  • CWE-407 Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity weakness

References