CVE-2006-2242 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in acFTP 1.4, where remote attackers can crash the application by sending a long string containing brace characters to the USER command. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, as it can be exploited remotely with low complexity to cause a partial denial of service. While not listed in CISA's KEV catalog, proof-of-concept exploit code is publicly available on ExploitDB, demonstrating its exploitability. Despite this, the vulnerability has received minimal community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
1.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:acftp:acftp:1.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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