South River Technologies Titan FTP Server up to 3.21 Command CWD/STAT/LIST heap-based overflow

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability marked as critical has been reported in South River Technologies Titan FTP Server up to 3.21. This affects an unknown function of the component Command Handler. Performing a manipulation of the argument CWD/STAT/LIST results in heap-based overflow. This vulnerability was named CVE-2004-1641. The attack may be initiated remotely. In addition, an exploit is available.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in South River Technologies Titan FTP Server up to 3.21 (File Transfer Software). It has been classified as critical. This affects an unknown code of the component Command Handler. The manipulation of the argument CWD/STAT/LIST with an unknown input leads to a heap-based overflow vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-122. A heap overflow condition is a buffer overflow, where the buffer that can be overwritten is allocated in the heap portion of memory, generally meaning that the buffer was allocated using a routine such as malloc(). This is going to have an impact on availability. The summary by CVE is:

Heap-based buffer overflow in Titan FTP 3.21 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a long FTP command such as (1) CWD, (2) STAT, or (3) LIST.

The weakness was presented 08/31/2004 by lion (Website). The advisory is shared at securiteam.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2004-1641. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. Technical details and a public exploit are known.

After immediately, there has been an exploit disclosed. The exploit is shared for download at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 14591 (Titan FTP Server Multiple Command Remote Overflow), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family FTP. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 27244 (Titan FTP Server CWD Command Remote Heap Overflow Vulnerability).

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (17172), Exploit-DB (426), Tenable (14591), SecurityFocus (BID 11069†) and OSVDB (9397†). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Class: Heap-based overflow
CWE: CWE-122 / CWE-119
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Nessus ID: 14591
Nessus Name: Titan FTP Server Multiple Command Remote Overflow
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Sourcesinfo

Advisory: securiteam.com⛔
Researcher: lion
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2004-1641 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2004-1641
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-22173
X-Force: 17172
SecurityFocus: 11069 - Titan FTP Server CWD Command Remote Heap Overflow Vulnerability
Secunia: 12419
OSVDB: 9397 - Titan FTP Server Long Command Remote Overflow
Vulnerability Center: 5255 - Titan FTP Server <=3.21 Heap Overflow in Processing of CWD Commands, High

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013

Entryinfo

Created: 12/19/2014 09:35
Updated: 07/06/2025 16:39
Changes: 12/19/2014 09:35 (66), 04/02/2019 15:42 (9), 06/30/2021 09:11 (2), 06/30/2021 09:12 (1), 07/06/2025 16:39 (20)
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