Description
acFTP 1.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a long string with "{" (brace) characters to the USER command.
Public exploits
Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.
Third-party code, not reviewed by us. Public PoCs are sometimes fake or contain malware. Read the code first and run it only in an isolated lab, against systems you are authorised to test.
Exploit-DB 2
- acFTP FTP Server 1.4 - 'USER' Remote Denial of Service EDB-1757 · dos · May 6, 2006 · verified
- acFTP FTP Server 1.4 - 'USER' Remote Buffer Overflow (PoC) EDB-1749 · dos · May 4, 2006 · verified
Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.
References
- 19978 third-party-advisory
- ADV-2006-1674 vdb-entry
- 17855 vdb-entry
- acftp-user-dos(26258) vdb-entry
- 25278 vdb-entry
- 1749 exploit