CVE-2005-0484

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 10.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2005-03-30 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Format string vulnerability in gprostats for GProFTPD before 8.1.9 may allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an FTP transfer with a crafted filename that causes format string specifiers to be inserted into the ProFTPD transfer log.

Affected products

Gproftpd: through 8.1.8

References

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81894
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200502-26.xml
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81894
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200502-26.xml

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