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CVE-2006-4974

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2006-4974 describes a buffer overflow vulnerability in Ipswitch WS_FTP Limited Edition (LE) 5.08. A remote, malicious FTP server can exploit this flaw by sending an overly long response to a PASV command, leading to arbitrary code execution on the client system. This vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 7.5, indicating high severity due to its network-based attack vector, low attack complexity, and potential for complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not listed on CISA's KEV catalog or showing significant community discussion, public exploit code is available via ExploitDB, suggesting that exploitation is feasible.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
5.08_limited_editionCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ipswitch:ws_ftp_server:5.08_limited_edition:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.5HIGH

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
4.09%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
89.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-2401 · Sep 20, 2006
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0409 is in the 82nd percentile among its peer group of 51,466 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, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

secunia.com / advisories/22032
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/29074
exploit-db.com / exploits/2401
osvdb.org / 29125
securityfocus.com / bid/20121
Exploit