CVE-2006-6170

Proftpd vulnerability

CVSS

7.5

EPSS

17.4%

EPSS pct

97th

Exploited

No known

Buffer overflow in the tls_x509_name_oneline function in the mod_tls module, as used in ProFTPD 1.3.0a and earlier, and possibly other products, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a large data length argument, a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-5815.

Affected vendor

Proftpd Project

Affected product

Proftpd

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Published

2006-11-30

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality, partial impact to integrity, partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 17.4% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 97% of all scored CVEs.

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