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FKIE_CVE-2018-7573

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2018-03-01 17:29 - Updated: 2026-06-17 02:03

Severity

9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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.

References

URL	Tags
cve@mitre.org	https://cxsecurity.com/issue/WLB-2018030011	Exploit, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org	https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44596/	Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.org	https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44968/	Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://cxsecurity.com/issue/WLB-2018030011	Exploit, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44596/	Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44968/	Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	ftpshell	ftpshell_client	6.70

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CVE-2018-7573 (GCVE-0-2018-7573)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-03-01 17:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 06:31

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard E 28/100 over 2325 records in the last 180 days details

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44968/	exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB
https://cxsecurity.com/issue/WLB-2018030011	x_refsource_MISC
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44596/	exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB

Date Public

2018-03-01 00:00

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Sightings

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