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CVE-2001-1501

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.0 Published: 2001-12-31 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

The glob functionality in ProFTPD 1.2.1, and possibly other versions allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) via commands with large numbers of wildcard and other special characters, as demonstrated using an ls command with multiple (1) "*/..", (2) "*/.*", or (3) ".*./*?/" sequences in the argument.

Affected Platforms

Proftpd Project Proftpd

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References