MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2006-6564

Filezilla vulnerability

CVSS
4.0
EPSS
6.0%
EPSS pct
93th
Exploited
No known
FileZilla Server before 0.9.22 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a malformed argument to the STOR command, which results in a NULL pointer dereference. NOTE: CVE analysis suggests that the problem might be due to a malformed PORT command.
Affected vendor
Filezilla
Affected product
Filezilla
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
Published
2006-12-15

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring single-factor authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 6.0% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 93% of all scored CVEs.

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  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2006-6564.
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