CVE-2009-0543

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 15.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2009-02-12 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-89

Description

ProFTPD Server 1.3.1, with NLS support enabled, allows remote attackers to bypass SQL injection protection mechanisms via invalid, encoded multibyte characters, which are not properly handled in (1) mod_sql_mysql and (2) mod_sql_postgres.

Affected products

ProFTPD: 1.3.1

References

http://bugs.proftpd.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3173
http://secunia.com/advisories/34268
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200903-27.xml
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1730
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:061
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/02/11/4
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/02/11/5
http://bugs.proftpd.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3173
http://secunia.com/advisories/34268
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200903-27.xml
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1730
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:061

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