Vulnerability Report

CVE-2004-0185

RCE

Title: wu-ftpd skey_challenge buffer overflow DoS/RCE

RCE, DoS, Buffer Overflow

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2004-0185.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Mar 15, 2004

Modified Date Apr 03, 2025

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 10.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

8.59%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2004-0185: Buffer overflow in the skey_challenge function in ftpd.c for wu-ftp daemon (wu-ftpd) 2.6.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a s/key (SKEY) request with a long name.

Impacted Vendors

wuftpd 1

washington_university 1

Reference Links

ftp://ftp.wu-ftpd.org/pub/wu-ftpd/patches/apply_to_2.6.2/skeychallenge.patch http://unixpunx.org/txt/exploits_archive/packetstorm/0310-advisories/wuftpd-skey.txt http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-457 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-096.html http://www.securiteam.com/unixfocus/6X00Q1P8KC.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/8893 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/13518 ftp://ftp.wu-ftpd.org/pub/wu-ftpd/patches/apply_to_2.6.2/skeychallenge.patch http://unixpunx.org/txt/exploits_archive/packetstorm/0310-advisories/wuftpd-skey.txt http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-457 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-096.html http://www.securiteam.com/unixfocus/6X00Q1P8KC.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/8893 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/13518

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

10.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2004-0185 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

March 15, 2004 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.