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CVE-2005-2479

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-2479 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Quick 'n Easy FTP Server 3.0, allowing remote attackers to crash the application or consume excessive CPU resources by sending an overly long USER command. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, as it can be exploited remotely with low attack complexity and without authentication, leading to a partial availability impact. While not actively exploited in the wild and not on CISA's KEV catalog, public exploit code is available via ExploitDB (EDB-1129), though there is no recorded community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
3.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:pablo_software_solutions:quick_n_easy_ftp_server:3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
3.69%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
88.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-1129 · Aug 2, 2005
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0369 is in the 85th percentile among its peer group of 23,690 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
marc.info
marc.info
securitytracker.com / id
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/21679
securityfocus.com / archive/1/428812/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/14451