CVE-2019-18217
HIGH
7.5
CVSS Score
Published: October 21, 2019 at 03:12 AM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 02:24 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorProFTPD
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Severity
HIGH7.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 20%
Description
ProFTPD before 1.3.6b and 1.3.7rc before 1.3.7rc2 allows remote unauthenticated denial-of-service due to incorrect handling of overly long commands because main.c in a child process enters an infinite loop.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
Patch and advisory references
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00009.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/NJDQRVZTILBX4BUCTIRKP2WBHDHDCJR5/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RB2FPAWDWXT5ALAFIC5Y3RSEMXSFL6H2/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YLRPYEEMQJVAXO2SXRGOQ4HBFEEPCNXG/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-35
References (14)
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00009.htmlx_refsource_CONFIRM
Source: [email protected]
https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-940889.pdfx_refsource_MISCRelease NotesThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://github.com/proftpd/proftpd/blob/1.3.6/NEWSx_refsource_MISCRelease NotesThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://github.com/proftpd/proftpd/blob/1.3.6/RELEASE_NOTESx_refsource_MISCRelease NotesThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://github.com/proftpd/proftpd/blob/master/NEWSx_refsource_MISCRelease NotesThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://github.com/proftpd/proftpd/blob/master/RELEASE_NOTESx_refsource_MISCExploitIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://github.com/proftpd/proftpd/issues/846Mailing Listx_refsource_MLIST
Source: [email protected]
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/10/msg00036.htmlCVSS
- Attack Vector
- NETWORK
- Complexity
- LOW
- Privileges
- NONE
- User Interaction
- NONE
- Scope
- UNCHANGED
- Confidentiality
- NONE
- Integrity
- NONE
- Availability
- HIGH
Vector?
Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-835
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