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CVE-1999-0997

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
20/12/1999
Last modified:
03/04/2025

Description

wu-ftp with FTP conversion enabled allows an attacker to execute commands via a malformed file name that is interpreted as an argument to the program that does the conversion, e.g. tar or uncompress.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.50 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Physical
Integrity (I): Physical
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0
7.50
Severity 2.0
HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:millenux_gmbh:anonftp:2.8.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:university_of_washington:wu-ftpd:2.4.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:university_of_washington:wu-ftpd:2.5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:university_of_washington:wu-ftpd:2.6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:linux:5.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:linux:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:linux:6.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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