- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 72.9%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 0.5% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 4Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Buffer overflow in War FTP allows remote execution of commands.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list 2 Metasploit modules and 2 Exploit-DB entries for it.
Show the exploits4
Metasploit modules2 modules
- War-FTPD 1.65 Password Overflow (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
exploit/windows/ftp/warftpd_165_passRank averagedisclosed 19 Mar 1998
- War-FTPD 1.65 Username Overflow (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
exploit/windows/ftp/warftpd_165_userRank averagedisclosed 19 Mar 1998
Exploit-DB2 entries
- War-FTPD 1.65 - Password Overflow (Metasploit) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 16706remote, windowspublished 3 Jul 2010Verified
- War-FTPD 1.65 - 'Username' Remote Overflow (Metasploit) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 16724remote, windowspublished 3 Jul 2010Verified
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 4 months later
· 4 months later
Published
- 25 years later
· 25 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.5 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 72.9% · top 0.5% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References1
- 875 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-1999-0256 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-1999-0256)Record last updated .