CVE-2004-2487

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2004-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in Nexgen FTP Server before 2.2.3.23 allows remote authenticated users to read or list arbitrary files via (1) "..", (2) "\..\" (backslash dot dot), or (3) "/../" sequences in (a) RETR (get), (b) NLST (ls), (c) LIST (ls), (d) RNFR, or (e) RNTO FTP commands.

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/11216
http://www.nexgenserver.com/cgi-bin/loadframe2.cgi?/History.html
http://www.osvdb.org/4557
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/9970
http://www.securitytracker.com/alerts/2004/Mar/1009545.html
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/15594
http://secunia.com/advisories/11216
http://www.nexgenserver.com/cgi-bin/loadframe2.cgi?/History.html
http://www.osvdb.org/4557
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/9970
http://www.securitytracker.com/alerts/2004/Mar/1009545.html
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/15594

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