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CVE-2006-2242

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2006-05-09 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

acFTP 1.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a long string with "{" (brace) characters to the USER command.

Affected products

• Acftp: 1.4

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/19978
• http://www.osvdb.org/25278
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17855
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1674
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26258
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/1749
• http://secunia.com/advisories/19978
• http://www.osvdb.org/25278
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17855
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1674
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26258
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/1749

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