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War FTP Daemon < 1.66x4 USER/PASS Command Overflow

high Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 1830

Synopsis

The remote host is vulnerable to a buffer overflow.

Description

The version of War FTP Daemon running on this host contains a buffer overflow in the code that handles the USER and PASS commands. A potential intruder could use this vulnerability to crash the server or run arbitrary commands on the system.

Solution

Upgrade to version 1.66x4 or higher.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 1830

Family: FTP Servers

Published: 8/20/2004

Updated: 3/6/2019

Nessus ID: 11207

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.3

Temporal Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:jgaa:warftpd

Exploitable With

Metasploit (War-FTPD 1.65 Password Overflow)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-1999-0256

BID: 10078