CVE-2007-5962
Memory leak in a certain Red Hat patch, applied to vsftpd 2.0.5 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 and Fedora 6 through 8, and on…
- 7.1HighCVSS base score
- 12.1%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 3.8% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 3Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Memory leak in a certain Red Hat patch, applied to vsftpd 2.0.5 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 and Fedora 6 through 8, and on Foresight Linux and rPath appliances, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large number of CWD commands, as demonstrated by an attack on a daemon with the deny_file configuration option.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list 3 Exploit-DB entries for it. A reference of the record is tagged as an exploit.
Show the exploits4
Exploit-DB3 entries
- vsftpd 2.0.5 - 'CWD' (Authenticated) Remote Memory Consumption (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 5814dos, linuxpublished 14 Jun 2008Verified
- vsftpd 2.0.5 - 'deny_file' Option Remote Denial of Service (1) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 31818dos, windowspublished 21 May 2008Verified
- vsftpd 2.0.5 - 'deny_file' Option Remote Denial of Service (2) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 31819dos, windowspublished 21 May 2008Verified
References tagged exploit1 reference
- 5814 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
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Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 6 months later
· 6 months later
Published
- 16 years later
· 16 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 | High7.1 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 12.1% · top 3.8% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.1.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
18
- http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0185 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- FEDORA-2008-4347 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- 30341 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 5814 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- 30354 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- RHSA-2008:0295 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- FEDORA-2008-4362 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20080521 Re: vsftpd CVE-2007-5962 (Red Hat / Fedora specific) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=397011 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- vsftpd-denyfile-dos(42593) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- FEDORA-2008-4373 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- ADV-2008-1600 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20080521 Re: vsftpd CVE-2007-5962 (Red Hat / Fedora specific) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- 29322 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:8850 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20080521 vsftpd CVE-2007-5962 (Red Hat / Fedora specific) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- 20080606 rPSA-2008-0185-1 vsftpd (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 1020079 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_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-2007-5932 (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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