CVE-2005-3683
Stack-based buffer overflow in freeFTPd before 1.0.9 with Logging enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service…
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 71.5%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 0.6% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 3Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Stack-based buffer overflow in freeFTPd before 1.0.9 with Logging enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash), and possibly execute arbitrary code, via a long USER command.
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 2 Exploit-DB entries for it.
Show the exploits3
Metasploit modules1 module
- freeFTPd 1.0 Username Overflow (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
exploit/windows/ftp/freeftpd_userRank averagedisclosed 16 Nov 2005
Exploit-DB2 entries
- freeFTPd 1.0 - 'Username' Remote Overflow (Metasploit) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 16707remote, windowspublished 3 Jul 2010Verified
- freeFTPd 1.0.8 - 'USER' Remote Buffer Overflow (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 1330remote, windowspublished 17 Nov 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
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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 | High7.5 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 71.5% · top 0.6% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
9
- 1015230 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 17583 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- freeftpd-multiple-command-bo(23118) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- ADV-2005-2458 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 20909 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- 20051116 freeftpd USER bufferoverflow (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCx_transferred
- 20051116 re: freeftpd USER bufferoverflow (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCx_transferred
- http://freeftpd.com/?ctt=changelog (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 15457 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_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-2005-3680 (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-2005-3683)Record last updated .