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medium 4.0

CVE-2006-5789 json

War FTP Daemon (WarFTPd) 1.82.00-RC11 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service via a large number of "%s" format stri…

published 2006-11-07 20 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2006-5773

cvss
4.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.9%
EPSS 2.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 87%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

War FTP Daemon (WarFTPd) 1.82.00-RC11 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service via a large number of "%s" format strings in (1) CWD, (2) CDUP, (3) DELE, (4) NLST, (5) LIST, (6) SIZE, and possibly other commands. NOTE: it is possible that vector 1 is an off-by-one variant or incomplete fix of CVE-2005-0312.

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-2735)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

2.93% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 87% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-2735 WarFTPd 1.82.00-RC11 - Remote Denial of Service dos, 2006-11-07
  • securityfocus.com http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20944 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 4.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-399 Resource Management Errors

References

Sources

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