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CVE-2005-4888

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2010-04-05 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

NWFTPD.nlm before 5.06.04 in the FTP server in Novell NetWare allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (excessive stale connections) by establishing many FTP sessions, which persist in the Not-Logged-In state after each session is completed.

Affected products

• Novell Netware: all versions
• Novell Netware Ftp Server: all versions

References

• http://www.novell.com/support/viewContent.do?externalId=3238588&sliceId=1
• https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=97819
• http://www.novell.com/support/viewContent.do?externalId=3238588&sliceId=1
• https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=97819

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