CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-63090
8.7 HIGH
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2026-07-20
- Last modified
- 2026-07-30
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 4.0 ([email protected])
- 8.7 HIGH — CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-122
Description
ProFTPD before 1.3.9c and 1.3.10rc3 contains a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the mod_sftp module that allows authenticated low-privilege attackers to achieve arbitrary code execution by sending crafted SFTP packet fragments exceeding the 16 KB reassembly buffer in the fxp.c component. Attackers can supply oversized fragments to trigger an incorrectly conditioned reallocation, corrupt pool freelist metadata, overwrite the root_fs BSS global pointer to reference a fake filesystem struct, and redirect pr_fsio_stat() to system() via a crafted RENAME request.
Affected configurations
• proftpd proftpd (< 1.3.9c)
• proftpd proftpd 1.3.10
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-122 Heap-based Buffer Overflow weakness
References
- https://github.com/proftpd/proftpd/blob/master/RELEASE_NOTES Release Notes
- https://github.com/proftpd/proftpd/commit/4ee8701bcf425f11b3b2116e634ff3e655d918b1 Patch
- https://github.com/proftpd/proftpd/issues/2190 Issue Tracking
- https://github.com/proftpd/proftpd/releases/tag/v1.3.10rc3-3 Product, Release Notes
- https://github.com/proftpd/proftpd/releases/tag/v1.3.9c Product, Release Notes
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/proftpd-mod-sftp-heap-buffer-overflow-via-sftp-packet-reassembly Third Party Advisory, Patch, Release Notes