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CVE-2002-2417
acFTP 1.4 does not properly handle when an invalid password is provided by the user during authentication, which allows remote attackers…
High10.0EPSS 4.2%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
acFTP 1.4 does not properly handle when an invalid password is provided by the user during authentication, which allows remote attackers to hide or misrepresent certain activity from log files and possibly gain privileges.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
Published
- 17 years later
· 17 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 | High10.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 4.2% · top 9.0% 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: High 10.0.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (5)
- 6235 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 3334 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASONx_transferred
- acftp-authentication-bypass(10681) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 20021123 acFTP Authentication Issue (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_VULNWATCHx_transferred
- 20021124 acFTP Authentication Issue (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_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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