CVE-2008-5626
XM Easy Personal FTP Server 5.6.0 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service via a crafted argument to the NLST…
- 4.0MediumCVSS base score
- 35.9%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 1.5% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 4Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
XM Easy Personal FTP Server 5.6.0 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service via a crafted argument to the NLST command, as demonstrated by a -1 argument.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list 2 Metasploit modules and 2 Exploit-DB entries for it. A reference of the record is tagged as an exploit.
Show the exploits5
Metasploit modules2 modules
- XM Easy Personal FTP Server 5.7.0 NLST DoS (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
auxiliary/dos/windows/ftp/xmeasy570_nlstRank normaldisclosed 27 Mar 2009
- XM Easy Personal FTP Server 5.6.0 NLST DoS (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
auxiliary/dos/windows/ftp/xmeasy560_nlstRank normaldisclosed 13 Oct 2008
Exploit-DB2 entries
- XM Easy Personal FTP Server 5.7.0 - 'NLST' Denial of Service (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 8294dos, windowspublished 27 Mar 2009Verified
- XM Easy Personal FTP Server 5.6.0 - Remote Denial of Service (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 6741dos, windowspublished 13 Oct 2008Verified
References tagged exploit1 reference
- 6741 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
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
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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 | Medium4.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 35.9% · top 1.5% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
4
- 31739 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 4766 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASONx_transferred
- 6741 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- ADV-2008-2803 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_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-2008-5600 (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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