CVE-2006-5789

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2006-11-07 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

War FTP Daemon (WarFTPd) 1.82.00-RC11 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service via a large number of "%s" format strings in (1) CWD, (2) CDUP, (3) DELE, (4) NLST, (5) LIST, (6) SIZE, and possibly other commands. NOTE: it is possible that vector 1 is an off-by-one variant or incomplete fix of CVE-2005-0312.

Affected products

Jgaa Warftpd: 1.82.00_rc11

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/22755
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1832
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017174
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/450804/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20944
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4398
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30077
http://secunia.com/advisories/22755
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1832
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017174
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/450804/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20944

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