CVE-2004-2523

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2004-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Format string vulnerability in the msg command (cat_message function in msg.c) in OpenFTPD 0.30.2 and earlier allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in the message argument.

Affected products

Openftpd Ftp Server: through 0.30.2; 0.29.4, 0.30, 0.30.1

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2004-07/0350.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2004-08/0017.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/12174
http://securitytracker.com/id?1010823
http://www.openftpd.org:9673/openftpd
http://www.osvdb.org/8261
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10830
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16843
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2004-07/0350.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2004-08/0017.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/12174
http://securitytracker.com/id?1010823

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