CVE-2001-0550 (GCVE-0-2001-0550)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2002-06-25 04:00 – Updated: 2024-08-08 04:21
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
wu-ftpd 2.6.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a "~{" argument to commands such as CWD, which is not properly handled by the glob function (ftpglob).
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
14 references
Date Public
2001-04-30 00:00
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