CVE-2007-5184

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 12.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2007-10-03 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-134

Description

Format string vulnerability in the SMBDirList function in dirlist.c in SmbFTPD 0.96 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in a directory name.

Affected products

Smbftpd: 0.96

References

http://debork.se/poc/001_smbftpd.c
http://osvdb.org/41385
http://secunia.com/advisories/27014
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=543077
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/481220/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25871
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3311
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36893
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/4478
http://debork.se/poc/001_smbftpd.c
http://osvdb.org/41385
http://secunia.com/advisories/27014

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