National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary: CVE-2001-0187
Orirignal release date: 2001-03-26
Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

    Format string vulnerability in wu-ftp 2.6.1 and earlier, when running with debug mode enabled, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a malformed argument that is recorded in a PASV port assignment.

Impact

    CVSS Severity: 10 (High)
    Range: remote
    Authentication: exception,env
    Impact Type: sec_prot admin="1"

Reference to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Vulnerable Software and Vendor

    wu-ftpd (University of Washington)

Technical Details

CVE Standard Vulnerability Entry: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2001-0187