CVE-2009-4775
Format string vulnerability in Ipswitch WS_FTP Professional 12 before 12.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash)…
- 4.3MediumCVSS base score
- 5.6%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 7.0% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Format string vulnerability in Ipswitch WS_FTP Professional 12 before 12.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via format string specifiers in the status code portion of an HTTP response.
Public exploit
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Exploit-DB1 entry
- Ipswitch WS_FTP 12 Professional - Remote Format String (PoC) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 9607dos, windowspublished 9 Sept 2009Verified
References tagged exploit1 reference
- 9607 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
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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 | Medium4.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 5.6% · top 7.0% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
5
- http://docs.ipswitch.com/WS_FTP%20122/ReleaseNotes/English/index.htm?k_id=ipswitch_com_ftp_documents_worldwide_ws_ftp122releasenotesenglish#link23 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- wsftp-http-format-string(53098) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- http://www.packetstormsecurity.org/0909-exploits/nocoolnameforawsftppoc.pl.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 9607 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- 36297 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_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-2009-4738 (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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