CVE-2000-0574

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 58.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2000-07-07 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

FTP servers such as OpenBSD ftpd, NetBSD ftpd, ProFTPd and Opieftpd do not properly cleanse untrusted format strings that are used in the setproctitle function (sometimes called by set_proc_title), which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary commands.

Affected products

OpenBSD Ftpd: 5.51, 5.60
Washington University Wu-Ftpd: 2.4.2_beta1, 2.4.2_beta18, 2.4.2_beta18_vr4, 2.4.2_beta18_vr5, 2.4.2_beta18_vr6, 2.4.2_beta18_vr7 (+12)

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-07/0031.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-07/0061.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-07/0121.html
http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2000-13.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1425
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1438
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-07/0031.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-07/0061.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-07/0121.html
http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2000-13.html

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