Vulnerability Report

CVE-2011-0762

Title: Vsftpd Project Vsftpd Denial of Service (DoS)

DoS

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2011-0762

CWE Category CWE-400
Published Date Mar 02, 2011
Modified Date Apr 29, 2026
Exploit Status Available
Score 4.0 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
45.28%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2011-0762: The vsf_filename_passes_filter function in ls.c in vsftpd before 2.3.3 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and process slot exhaustion) via crafted glob expressions in STAT commands in multiple FTP sessions, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-2632.

Impacted Vendors

B
beasts 1
V
vsftpd_project 1

Reference Links

ftp://vsftpd.beasts.org/users/cevans/untar/vsftpd-2.3.4/Changelog http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=622741 http://cxib.net/stuff/vspoc232.c http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN37417423/index.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055881.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055882.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055957.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-05/msg00005.html http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=133226187115472&w=2 http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/95 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8109 http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2305 http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/16270 http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/590604 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:049 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0337.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/516748/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46617 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1025186 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1098-1 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0547 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0639 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0668 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0713 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/65873 ftp://vsftpd.beasts.org/users/cevans/untar/vsftpd-2.3.4/Changelog http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=622741 http://cxib.net/stuff/vspoc232.c http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN37417423/index.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055881.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055882.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055957.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-05/msg00005.html http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=133226187115472&w=2 http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/95 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8109 http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2305 http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/16270 http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/590604 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:049 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0337.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/516748/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46617 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1025186 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1098-1 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0547 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0639 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0668 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0713 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/65873
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
4.0
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2011-0762 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/16270
View Code
MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

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:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.