Vulnerability Report

CVE-2008-5693

Title: Ipswitch Ws Ftp Improper Input Validation

Improper Input Validation

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2008-5693.

CWE Category CWE-20

Published Date Dec 19, 2008

Modified Date Apr 09, 2025

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 5.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.10%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2008-5693: Ipswitch WS_FTP Server Manager 6.1.0.0 and earlier, and possibly other Ipswitch products, might allow remote attackers to read the contents of custom ASP files in WSFTPSVR/ via a request with an appended dot character.

Impacted Vendors

ipswitch 1

Reference Links

http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/wsftpweblog-adv.txt http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4799 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/487686/100/200/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/487697/100/200/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27654 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47677 http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/wsftpweblog-adv.txt http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4799 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/487686/100/200/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/487697/100/200/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27654 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47677

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2008-5693 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

April 09, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

December 19, 2008 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:P/I:N/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.