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CVE-2008-7264
The ftp_QUIT function in ftpserver.py in pyftpdlib before 0.5.0 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (file…
Medium4.0EPSS 1.3%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
The ftp_QUIT function in ftpserver.py in pyftpdlib before 0.5.0 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (file descriptor exhaustion and daemon outage) by sending a QUIT command during a disallowed data-transfer attempt.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
Published
- 14 years later
· 14 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)
- 1.3% · top 28% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.0.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- PyPIpyftpdlibGHSA-8p2c-fghc-9hj4 (opens in a new tab)
References (4)
- http://code.google.com/p/pyftpdlib/source/detail?r=344 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://code.google.com/p/pyftpdlib/source/browse/trunk/HISTORY (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://code.google.com/p/pyftpdlib/source/diff?spec=svn344&r=344&format=side&path=/trunk/pyftpdlib/ftpserver.py (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://code.google.com/p/pyftpdlib/issues/detail?id=71 (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-2010-0024 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-8p2c-fghc-9hj4 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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