CVE-2009-5141Format string vulnerability in War FTP Daemon (warftpd) 1.82 RC 12 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (crash)…
- 4.0MediumCVSS base score
- 2.7%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 14% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Format string vulnerability in War FTP Daemon (warftpd) 1.82 RC 12 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (crash) via format string specifiers in a LIST command.
Public exploit
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Show the exploits2
Exploit-DB1 entry
- WarFTPd 1.82.00-RC12 - 'LIST' Format String Denial of Service (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 9622dos, windowspublished 10 Sept 2009Verified
References tagged exploit1 reference
- 9622 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
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Published
- 10 years later
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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)
- 2.7% · top 14% of all CVEs (13 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
References5
- 62599 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- 9622 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- 20090912 War FTP Daemon Remote Denial Of Service Vulnerability (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- http://www.warftp.org/index.php?menu=338&cmd=show_article&article_id=1003 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://www.corelan.be/index.php/forum/security-advisories-archive-2009/corelan-09001-warftpd-1-82-rc12-dos/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_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-2009-5096 (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-2009-5141)Record last updated .