Description
Stack-based buffer overflow in War FTP Daemon 1.65, and possibly earlier, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, as demonstrated by warftp_165.tar by Immunity. NOTE: this might be the same issue as CVE-1999-0256, CVE-2000-0131, or CVE-2006-2171, but due to Immunity's lack of details, this cannot be certain.
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.
Exploit-DB 3
- WarFTP 1.65 - 'USER' Remote Buffer Overflow EDB-3570 · remote · Mar 25, 2007 · verified
- WarFTP 1.65 (Windows 2000 SP4) - 'USER' Remote Buffer Overflow EDB-3482 · remote · Mar 15, 2007 · verified
- WarFTP 1.65 (Windows 2000 SP4) - 'USER' Remote Buffer Overflow EDB-3474 · remote · Mar 14, 2007 · verified
GitHub 2 repositories
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TheMalwareGuardian/CVE-2007-1567 ★ 1 · Mar 19, 2026
Classic stack-based buffer overflow in War FTP Daemon 1.65 demonstrating old-school remote code execution through malformed FTP commands.
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war4uthor/CVE-2007-1567 ★ 0 · Dec 19, 2018
CVE-2007-1567 - WarFTP 1.65 'USER' Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability. Tested on Windows XP Professional SP3.
Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.
References
- 22944 vdb-entry
- 24494 third-party-advisory
- https://www.immunityinc.com/downloads/immpartners/warftp_165.tar
- ADV-2007-0933 vdb-entry