CVEvulnerability

CVE-2004-1602

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2004-10-15 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2004-10-15
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
Weaknesses
CWE-203

Description

ProFTPD 1.2.x, including 1.2.8 and 1.2.10, responds in a different amount of time when a given username exists, which allows remote attackers to identify valid usernames by timing the server response.

Affected configurations

• proftpd proftpd (>= 1.2.0 <= 1.2.10)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-203 Observable Discrepancy weakness

Referenced by CWE · observed example (2)

  • CWE-203 Observable Discrepancy weakness
  • CWE-208 Observable Timing Discrepancy weakness

References