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CVE-2002-1522

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 13.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2003-04-02 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Buffer overflow in PowerFTP FTP server 2.24, and possibly other versions, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long USER argument.

Affected products

• Cooolsoft Powerftp: 2.03, 2.10, 2.23, 2.24

References

• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2002-10/0075.html
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2002-10/0194.html
• http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10286.php
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5899
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2002-10/0075.html
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2002-10/0194.html
• http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10286.php
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5899

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