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CVE-2007-5769

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2007-5769 describes a double free vulnerability in the getreply function of netkit ftp (netkit-ftp) 0.17 and later, allowing remote FTP servers to trigger a denial of service and potentially other unspecified impacts. With a CVSS score of 10.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C), this vulnerability is highly severe, indicating it can be exploited remotely with low complexity and lead to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.17CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:netkit-ftp:netkit_ftp:0.17:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

10.0HIGH

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

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

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.69%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
74.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0169 is in the 57th percentile among its peer group of 51,485 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

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2007-5769

ftp: netkit ftp - use of uninitialized variable

Nov 15, 2007

References

bugs.gentoo.org / show_bug.cgi
ExploitPatch
cvs.fedora.redhat.com / viewcvs/rpms/ftp/F-8/netkit-ftp-0.17-sigseg.patch
Exploit
marc.info
securityfocus.com / bid/26764