CVE-2008-4247
ftpd in OpenBSD 4.3, FreeBSD 7.0, NetBSD 4.0, Solaris, and possibly other operating systems interprets long commands from an FTP client as…
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 5.3%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 7.4% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
ftpd in OpenBSD 4.3, FreeBSD 7.0, NetBSD 4.0, Solaris, and possibly other operating systems interprets long commands from an FTP client as multiple commands, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks and execute arbitrary FTP commands via a long ftp:// URI that leverages an existing session from the FTP client implementation in a web browser.
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.
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Exploit-DB1 entry
- Multiple Vendor FTP Server - Long Command Handling Security (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 32399remote, unixpublished 20 Sept 2008Verified
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Timeline
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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 | High7.5 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 5.3% · top 7.4% 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
14
- 1021112 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/libexec/ftpd/ftpcmd.y.diff?r1=1.51&r2=1.52&f=h (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 1020946 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 20080926 multiple vendor ftpd - Cross-site request forgery (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASONRESx_transferred
- 33341 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://bugs.proftpd.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3115 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/libexec/ftpd/ftpcmd.y (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 32068 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- FreeBSD-SA-08:12 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FREEBSDx_transferred
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuoct2010-175626.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 32070 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/libexec/ftpd/ftpd.c.diff?r1=1.183&r2=1.184&f=h (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 4313 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASONx_transferred
- http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/libexec/ftpd/ftpd.c (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_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-2008-4230 (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-2008-4247)Record last updated .