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CVE-2004-0287

25
FAUCET Score

CVE-2004-0287 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Xlight FTP Server version 1.52. Authenticated remote users can crash the server by sending a RETR command with an excessively long argument containing numerous slash characters, potentially leading to a buffer overflow. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, and can be exploited with low complexity over the network, resulting in a partial availability impact. While there is an ExploitDB entry detailing a denial-of-service exploit, there is no evidence of active exploitation, Metasploit or Nuclei modules, or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.52CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:xlight_ftp_server:xlight_ftp_server:1.52:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
7.32%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
93.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-23701 · Feb 16, 2004
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0732 is in the 91st percentile among its peer group of 23,701 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

marc.info
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/15220
securityfocus.com / bid/9668