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| Vulnerability_id | VCID-tgvq-26be-nuhz |
| Summary | 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. |
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| reference_url |
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2007-5962 |
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0.1715 |
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epss |
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0.95158 |
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2026-06-11T12:55:00Z |
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0.95174 |
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2026-06-12T12:55:00Z |
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0.1715 |
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epss |
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0.95176 |
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2026-06-13T12:55:00Z |
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0.1715 |
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epss |
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0.95177 |
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2026-06-14T12:55:00Z |
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https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2007-5962 |
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| cwe_id |
401 |
| name |
Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime |
| description |
The product does not sufficiently track and release allocated memory after it has been used, which slowly consumes remaining memory. |
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| Exploits |
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| date_added |
2008-05-21 |
| description |
vsftpd 2.0.5 - 'deny_file' Option Remote Denial of Service (2) |
| required_action |
null |
| due_date |
null |
| notes |
null |
| known_ransomware_campaign_use |
true |
| source_date_published |
2008-05-21 |
| exploit_type |
dos |
| platform |
windows |
| source_date_updated |
2016-12-07 |
| data_source |
Exploit-DB |
| source_url |
https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29322/info |
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| Severity_range_score | null |
| Exploitability | 2.0 |
| Weighted_severity | 0.2 |
| Risk_score | 0.4 |
| Resource_url | http://public2.vulnerablecode.io/vulnerabilities/VCID-tgvq-26be-nuhz |