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CVE-2001-0136
Memory leak in ProFTPd 1.2.0rc2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a series of USER commands, and possibly SIZE…
Medium5.0EPSS 44.9%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
Memory leak in ProFTPd 1.2.0rc2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a series of USER commands, and possibly SIZE commands if the server has been improperly installed.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 7 months later
· 7 months later
Published
- 23 years later
· 23 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 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 44.9% · top 1.2% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (8)
- MDKSA-2001:021 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRAKEx_transferred
- CLA-2001:380 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_CONECTIVAx_transferred
- proftpd-size-memory-leak(5801) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 20010109 Memory leakage in ProFTPd leads to remote DoS (SIZE FTP); (Exploit Code) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 20010110 Re: Memory leakage in ProFTPd leads to remote DoS (SIZE FTP); (Exploit Code) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 20010213 Trustix Security Advisory - proftpd, kernel (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 20001220 ProFTPD 1.2.0 Memory leakage - denial of service (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- DSA-029 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_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)
- 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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