CVE-2004-1848 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2004-1848?

CVE-2004-1848 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 10 May 2005. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Ipswitch WS_FTP Server 4.0.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (disk consumption) and bypass file size restrictions via a REST command with a large size argument, followed by a STOR of a smaller file.

Weakness: CWE-399

Which versions are affected by CVE-2004-1848?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Ipswitch Ws Ftp Server, Progress Ws Ftp Server.

How do I fix CVE-2004-1848?

No fix has been published for CVE-2004-1848 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-2004-1848 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2004-1848 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in n/a

• CVE-2019-12144 Path traversal in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-12146 Path traversal in n/a Critical 9.1
• CVE-2019-12145 Path traversal in n/a High 7.5
• CVE-2006-4974 Memory corruption in n/a High 7.5
• CVE-2003-0772 Memory corruption in n/a High 7.5

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as CVE-2004-1886, GHSA-5356-72jq-77w4.