CVE-2005-2373
Buffer overflow in SlimFTPd 3.15 and 3.16 allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code via a long directory name to (1)…
- 7.2HighCVSS base score
- 45.7%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 1.2% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 2Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Buffer overflow in SlimFTPd 3.15 and 3.16 allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code via a long directory name to (1) LIST, (2) DELE or (3) RNFR commands.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list a Metasploit module and an Exploit-DB entry for it.
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Metasploit modules1 module
- SlimFTPd LIST Concatenation Overflow (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
exploit/windows/ftp/slimftpd_list_concatRank greatdisclosed 21 Jul 2005
Exploit-DB1 entry
- SlimFTPd - 'LIST' Concatenation Overflow (Metasploit) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 16729remote, windowspublished 5 Oct 2010Verified
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Timeline
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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)
- 45.7% · top 1.2% 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
- 1014542 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- http://www.whitsoftdev.com/slimftpd/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 16177 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 20050721 Arbitrary code execution in SlimFTPd v3.16 (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)
- EUVD EUVD-2005-2374 (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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