CVE-2001-0550

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 74.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2001-11-30 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

wu-ftpd 2.6.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a "~{" argument to commands such as CWD, which is not properly handled by the glob function (ftpglob).

Affected products

David Madore Ftpd-Bsd: 0.3.2, 0.3.3
Washington University Wu-Ftpd: 2.5.0, 2.6.0, 2.6.1

References

http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000442
http://download.immunix.org/ImmunixOS/7.0/updates/IMNX-2001-70-036-01
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=100700363414799&w=2
http://www.caldera.com/support/security/advisories/CSSA-2001-041.0.txt
http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-33.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2001/dsa-087
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/886083
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/security/2001/MDKSA-2001-090.php3
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2001_043_wuftpd_txt.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2001-157.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/82/180823
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3581

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