CVE-2005-1092
Lightspeed DeluxeFTP 6.01 stores usernames and passwords in plaintext in sites.xml, which is world-readable, which allows local users to…
- 7.2HighCVSS base score
- 0.87%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 41% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Lightspeed DeluxeFTP 6.01 stores usernames and passwords in plaintext in sites.xml, which is world-readable, which allows local users to gain privileges.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list an Exploit-DB entry for it.
Show the exploits1
Exploit-DB1 entry
- DeluxeFtp 6.x - Local Password Disclosure (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 936local, windowspublished 13 Apr 2005Verified
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
Published
- 19 years later
· 19 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 | High7.2 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.87% · top 41% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.2.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
4
- 14923 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 15421 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- 13105 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://lostmon.blogspot.com/2005/04/deluxeftp-plain-text-passwords.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_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-2005-1095 (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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