CVE-2008-7265

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2010-11-09 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

The pr_data_xfer function in ProFTPD before 1.3.2rc3 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via an ABOR command during a data transfer.

Affected products

ProFTPD: through 1.3.2; 1.2.0, 1.2.0-pre10, 1.2.0-pre9, 1.2.0-rc1, 1.2.0-rc2, 1.2.0-rc3 (+41)

References

http://bugs.proftpd.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3131
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2191
http://bugs.proftpd.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3131
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2191

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