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CVE-2009-5141

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2009-5141 describes a format string vulnerability in War FTP Daemon (warftpd) version 1.82 RC 12. This flaw allows remote, authenticated users to trigger a denial of service by sending specially crafted format string specifiers within a LIST command. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.0, indicating a medium severity, and could lead to a system crash. While no active exploitation is noted, public exploit code exists, and there is minimal community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.8.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:jgaa:warftpd:1.8.2:rc12:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.0MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
SINGLE
Exploitability Score
8.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.82%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
85.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-9622 · Sep 10, 2009
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0282 is in the 95th percentile among its peer group of 21,924 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

archives.neohapsis.com / archives/bugtraq/2009-09/0105.html
corelan.be / index.php/forum/security-advisories-archive-2009/corelan-09001-warftpd-1-82-rc12-dos
Exploit
exploit-db.com / exploits/9622
Exploit
osvdb.org / 62599
warftp.org / index.php
Vendor Advisory