CVE-2008-5692

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 12.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-12-19 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-287

Description

Ipswitch WS_FTP Server Manager before 6.1.1, and possibly other Ipswitch products, allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and read logs via a logLogout action to FTPLogServer/login.asp followed by a request to FTPLogServer/LogViewer.asp with the localhostnull account name.

Affected products

Ipswitch Ws Ftp: through 6.1; 1.0.5, 2.01, 2.02, 2.03, 3.0, 3.0.1 (+15)

References

http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/wsftpweblog-adv.txt
http://docs.ipswitch.com/WS_FTP_Server611/ReleaseNotes/index.htm?k_id=ipswitch_ftp_documents_worldwide_ws_ftpserverv611releasenotes#link12
http://secunia.com/advisories/28822
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4799
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/487686/100/200/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/487697/100/200/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27654
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0473
http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/wsftpweblog-adv.txt
http://docs.ipswitch.com/WS_FTP_Server611/ReleaseNotes/index.htm?k_id=ipswitch_ftp_documents_worldwide_ws_ftpserverv611releasenotes#link12
http://secunia.com/advisories/28822
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4799

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