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CVE-2012-5905

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-5905 describes a buffer overflow vulnerability in KnFTPd version 1.0.0, allowing remote authenticated users to trigger a denial of service by sending an excessively long string within a FEAT command. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.0, indicating a low severity, as it requires authentication and only leads to a partial impact on availability. While not actively exploited in the wild and not listed on the KEV catalog, a proof-of-concept exploit exists on ExploitDB, though there is minimal community discussion or media coverage surrounding it.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:elif_keir:knftpd:1.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
2.86%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
85.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-18671 · Mar 28, 2012
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0286 is in the 95th percentile among its peer group of 21,958 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

osvdb.org / 80666
packetstormsecurity.org / files/111296/KnFTPd-1.0.0-Denial-Of-Service.html
Exploit
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/74441
exploit-db.com / exploits/18671
Exploit
securityfocus.com / bid/52805
Exploit