CVE-2008-5692
Ipswitch WS_FTP Server Manager before 6.1.1, and possibly other Ipswitch products, allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and…
- 5.0MediumCVSS base score
- 12.6%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 3.7% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Ipswitch WS_FTP Server Manager before 6.1.1, and possibly other Ipswitch products, allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and read logs via a logLogout action to FTPLogServer/login.asp followed by a request to FTPLogServer/LogViewer.asp with the localhostnull account name.
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
- Ipswitch WS_FTP Server 6 - '/WSFTPSVR/FTPLogServer/LogViewer.asp' Authentication Bypass (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 31117webapps, asppublished 6 Feb 2008Verified
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
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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 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 12.6% · top 3.7% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
8
- 4799 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASONx_transferred
- http://docs.ipswitch.com/WS_FTP_Server611/ReleaseNotes/index.htm?k_id=ipswitch_ftp_documents_worldwide_ws_ftpserverv611releasenotes#link12 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- ADV-2008-0473 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/wsftpweblog-adv.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 27654 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 20080206 Re: Logs visualization in WS_FTP Server Manager 6.1.0.0 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 20080206 Logs visualization in WS_FTP Server Manager 6.1.0.0 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 28822 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_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-2008-5663 (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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