acFTP 1.4 denial of service

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability marked as problematic has been reported in acFTP 1.4. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality. This manipulation causes denial of service. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2006-2242. Moreover, an exploit is present.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in acFTP 1.4. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown code. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. As an impact it is known to affect availability. The summary by CVE is:

acFTP 1.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a long string with "{" (brace) characters to the USER command.

The weakness was disclosed 05/05/2006 by Preddy (Website). The advisory is shared at milw0rm.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2006-2242 since 05/08/2006. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available.

A public exploit has been developed by Preddy and been published even before and not after the advisory. It is possible to download the exploit at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept.

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 (26258), Exploit-DB (1749), SecurityFocus (BID 17855†), OSVDB (25278†) and Secunia (SA19978†). Several companies clearly confirm that VulDB is the primary source for best vulnerability data.

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Exploitinginfo

Class: Denial of service
CWE: CWE-404
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Access: Public
Status: Proof-of-Concept
Author: Preddy
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Recommended: no mitigation known
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Timelineinfo

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Sourcesinfo

Advisory: milw0rm.com⛔
Researcher: Preddy
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2006-2242 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2006-2242
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-30097
X-Force: 26258 - acFTP USER command denial of service
SecurityFocus: 17855 - ACFTP FTP Server User Command Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability
Secunia: 19978 - acFTP USER Command Denial of Service Vulnerability, Moderately Critical
OSVDB: 25278 - acFTP USER Command Overflow DoS
Vupen: ADV-2006-1674

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

Entryinfo

Created: 03/12/2015 12:19
Updated: 06/24/2024 00:47
Changes: 03/12/2015 12:19 (55), 07/25/2018 08:35 (12), 06/24/2024 00:47 (17)
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Cache ID: 216::103

Several companies clearly confirm that VulDB is the primary source for best vulnerability data.

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