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CVE-2018-7573

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 69.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-03-01 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

An issue was discovered in FTPShell Client 6.7. A remote FTP server can send 400 characters of 'F' in conjunction with the FTP 220 response code to crash the application; after this overflow, one can run arbitrary code on the victim machine. This is similar to CVE-2009-3364 and CVE-2017-6465.

Affected products

• Ftpshell Client: 6.70

References

• https://cxsecurity.com/issue/WLB-2018030011
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44596/
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44968/
• https://cxsecurity.com/issue/WLB-2018030011
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44596/
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44968/

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