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Fencer Vulns
critical 10.0

CVE-2008-4572 in the critical feed json

GuildFTPd 0.999.14, and possibly other versions, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrar…

published 2008-10-15 18 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2008-4552

cvss
10.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
60.7%
EPSS 60.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 99.1%
public exploits
2
Metasploit, Exploit-DB

Summary

GuildFTPd 0.999.14, and possibly other versions, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via long arguments to the CWD and LIST commands, which triggers heap corruption related to an improper free call, and possibly triggering a heap-based buffer overflow.

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (Metasploit auxiliary/dos/windows/ftp/guildftp_cwdlist)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

60.69% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99.1% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

CVSS scores

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

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

Sources

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