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CVE-2011-0418

29
FAUCET Score

CVE-2011-0418 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Pure-FTPd versions prior to 1.0.32 and libc in NetBSD 5.1. The flaw lies in the glob implementation, which fails to correctly expand expressions with curly brackets, leading to excessive memory consumption. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.0, indicating a medium severity, and can be triggered remotely by an authenticated user with low attack complexity, resulting in a denial of service. While there is an ExploitDB entry for a similar issue in FreeBSD ftpd, there is no evidence of active exploitation, Metasploit or Nuclei modules, or significant community discussion for this specific CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 1.0.31CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:pureftpd:pure-ftpd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.90CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:pureftpd:pure-ftpd:0.90:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.91CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:pureftpd:pure-ftpd:0.91:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.92CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:pureftpd:pure-ftpd:0.92:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.93CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:pureftpd:pure-ftpd:0.93:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
7.26%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
93.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-24450 · Feb 5, 2013
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0726 is in the 98th percentile among its peer group of 21,939 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

cvsweb.netbsd.org / bsdweb.cgi/src/lib/libc/gen/glob.c.diff
Patch
cvsweb.netbsd.org / bsdweb.cgi/src/lib/libc/gen/glob.c
Patch
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
securityreason.com / achievement_securityalert/97
Exploit
securityreason.com / securityalert/8228
mandriva.com / security/advisories
pureftpd.org / project/pure-ftpd/news
securityfocus.com / bid/47671
Exploit
vupen.com / english/advisories/2011/1273
Vendor Advisory