CVE Database · CVE-2007-5962
CVSS v3.1
N/A
EPSS
12.06%
Published
May 22, 2008
Modified
Jun 16, 2026
Public PoC / Exploit (4)
All weaponized →Links to public security research (Exploit-DB, Nuclei, Trickest, GitHub) for defensive use only.
Description
Memory leak in a certain Red Hat patch, applied to vsftpd 2.0.5 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 and Fedora 6 through 8, and on Foresight Linux and rPath appliances, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large number of CWD commands, as demonstrated by an attack on a daemon with the deny_file configuration option.
Weaknesses (CWE)
Affected Products (6)
References (20)