Description
War FTP Daemon (WarFTPd) 1.82.00-RC11 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service via a large number of "%s" format strings in (1) CWD, (2) CDUP, (3) DELE, (4) NLST, (5) LIST, (6) SIZE, and possibly other commands. NOTE: it is possible that vector 1 is an off-by-one variant or incomplete fix of CVE-2005-0312.
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 1
- WarFTPd 1.82.00-RC11 - Remote Denial of Service EDB-2735 · dos · Nov 7, 2006 · verified
Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.
References
- ADV-2006-4398 vdb-entry
- 1832 third-party-advisory
- 1017174 vdb-entry
- 20944 vdb-entry
- warftpd-string-dos(30077) vdb-entry
- 20061107 WarFTPd 1.82.00-RC11 Remote Denial Of Service mailing-list
- 22755 third-party-advisory