$ cve CVE-2007-5962 JSON

CVE-2007-5962 EXPLOIT

7.1

HIGH · CVSS 2.0 · EPSS 12.1% (pctl 96)

Patch early

A public exploit exists.

Description

Memory leak in a certain Red Hat patch, applied to vsftpd 2.0.5 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 and Fedora 6 through 8, and on Foresight Linux and rPath appliances, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large number of CWD commands, as demonstrated by an attack on a daemon with the deny_file configuration option.

Scoring

CVSS	7.1 (HIGH, v2.0)
Vector	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
EPSS	12.06% — more likely to be exploited than 96% of all CVEs
Weakness	CWE-399
On CISA KEV	no
Public exploit	yes
Published	2008-05-22
Last modified	2026-06-16

Affected (4)

Vendor	Product
foresight linux	appliances
redhat	enterprise linux
redhat	fedora
rpath	appliance platform agent

Public exploits

Source	Title	Date
exploit-db	vsftpd 2.0.5 - 'CWD' (Authenticated) Remote Memory Consumption	2008-06-14
exploit-db	vsftpd 2.0.5 - 'deny_file' Option Remote Denial of Service (1)	2008-05-21
exploit-db	vsftpd 2.0.5 - 'deny_file' Option Remote Denial of Service (2)	2008-05-21

References

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