# CVE-2005-4888: Denial of service in n/a

> Remote attackers can cause denial of service in Novell NetWare FTP server by establishing many stale sessions that persist after completion.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.0 (`AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 5 Apr 2010
- **Updated:** 17 Sep 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-9g4w-cm4c-cch5

## What is CVE-2005-4888?

CVE-2005-4888 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Novell Netware, published on 5 Apr 2010. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

NWFTPD.nlm before 5.06.04 in the FTP server in Novell NetWare allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (excessive stale connections) by establishing many FTP sessions, which persist in the Not-Logged-In state after each session is completed.

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2005-4888?

It affects 2 products.


Products: Novell Netware, Novell Netware Ftp Server.

## How do I fix CVE-2005-4888?

No fix has been published for CVE-2005-4888 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2005-4888 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2005-4888 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Novell Netware

- [CVE-2010-4227](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2010-4227/): Memory corruption in n/a (critical 10.0)
- [CVE-2010-2351](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2010-2351/): Memory corruption in n/a (critical 10.0)
- [CVE-2003-1595](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2003-1595/): Security feature bypass in n/a (critical 10.0)
- [CVE-2004-2734](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2004-2734/): webadmin-apache.conf in Novell Web Manager of Novell NetWare 6.5 uses an uppercase Alias tag with an inconsistent lowercase directory tag fo (critical 10.0)
- [CVE-1999-1086](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-1999-1086/): Auth bypass in n/a (critical 10.0)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2005-4888 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2005-4888 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Novell Netware, published on 5 Apr 2010. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2005-4888 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Novell Netware. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2005-4888/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2005-4888/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2005-4888
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2005-4888
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2005-4888

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