CVE-2001-0247 describes critical buffer overflow vulnerabilities in BSD-based FTP servers, including FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, MIT, and SGI. Attackers can exploit these flaws by sending specially crafted long pattern strings containing "{}" sequences, leading to arbitrary command execution. With a CVSS score of 10.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C), this vulnerability is easily exploitable remotely with no authentication, allowing for complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not listed on the KEV catalog, exploit code is publicly available on ExploitDB, and it has garnered significant community discussion, indicating its potential for exploitation.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
1.1.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mit:kerberos_5:1.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mit:kerberos_5:1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.2.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mit:kerberos_5:1.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.2.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mit:kerberos_5:1.2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
6.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:sgi:irix:6.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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