9.8crit

CVE-2018-7573in critical feed3 exploits

An issue was discovered in FTPShell Client 6.7.

Published 8 y ago · modified 4 mo ago · JSON

CVSS
9.8
v3.0 · NVD
CISA KEV
No
not known exploited
EPSS
69.2%
percentile 99%
Public exploits
3
Metasploit · Exploit-DB

Summary

An issue was discovered in FTPShell Client 6.7. A remote FTP server can send 400 characters of 'F' in conjunction with the FTP 220 response code to crash the application; after this overflow, one can run arbitrary code on the victim machine. This is similar to CVE-2009-3364 and CVE-2017-6465.

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

69.20% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99% of all scored CVEs.

Exploits and detections

  • Metasploit exploit/windows/ftp/ftpshell_cli_bof FTPShell client 6.70 (Enterprise edition) Stack Buffer Overflow · metasploit exploit, normal rank · 2017-03-04
  • EDB-44968 FTPShell Client 6.70 (Enterprise Edition) - Stack Buffer Overflow (Metasploit) · remote · 2018-07-02
  • EDB-44596 FTPShell Client 6.7 - Buffer Overflow · remote · 2018-05-08

CVSS scores

Assigned byVersionScoreVector
NVD3.09.8CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD2.010.0AV: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

  • exploit-db.com /exploits/44968/ · exploit, x_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB, x_transferred
  • cxsecurity.com /issue/WLB-2018030011 · x_refsource_MISC, x_transferred
  • exploit-db.com /exploits/44596/ · exploit, x_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB, x_transferred

Sources

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