CVE-2001-1501 Denial of service in n/a
Remote attackers can cause denial of service in ProFTPD by sending commands with excessive wildcard characters, consuming CPU and memory resources.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2001-1501?
CVE-2001-1501 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 21 Jun 2005. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The glob functionality in ProFTPD 1.2.1, and possibly other versions allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) via commands with large numbers of wildcard and other special characters, as demonstrated using an ls command with multiple (1) "*/..", (2) "*/.*", or (3) ".*./*?/" sequences in the argument.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2001-1501?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Proftpd Project Proftpd.
How do I fix CVE-2001-1501?
No fix has been published for CVE-2001-1501 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2001-1501 being exploited?
It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2001-1501 exists.
Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.
Other vulnerabilities in n/a
Sources
Also known as GHSA-8826-pg9p-3pqq.