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Fencer Vulns
critical 10.0

CVE-1999-0911 in the critical feed json

Buffer overflow in ProFTPD, wu-ftpd, and beroftpd allows remote attackers to gain root access via a series of MKD and CWD commands that cre…

published 1999-08-27 27 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-1999-0892

cvss
10.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
38.1%
EPSS 38.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 98%
public exploits
2
Exploit-DB

Summary

Buffer overflow in ProFTPD, wu-ftpd, and beroftpd allows remote attackers to gain root access via a series of MKD and CWD commands that create nested directories.

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-19475)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

38.05% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 98% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-19476 ProFTPd 1.2 pre1/pre2/pre3/pre4/pre5 - Remote Buffer Overflow (2) remote, 1999-08-27
  • EDB-19475 ProFTPd 1.2 pre1/pre2/pre3/pre4/pre5 - Remote Buffer Overflow (1) remote, 1999-08-17

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 10.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.