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CVE-2019-7230
The ABB IDAL FTP server mishandles format strings in a username during the authentication process. Attempting to authenticate with the…
- 8.8HighCVSS base score
- 3.7%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 10% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
The ABB IDAL FTP server mishandles format strings in a username during the authentication process. Attempting to authenticate with the username %s%p%x%d will crash the server. Sending %08x.AAAA.%08x.%08x will log memory content from the stack.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 5 months later
· 5 months later
Published
- 5 years later
· 5 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 | 3.1 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.7% · top 10% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References5
- https://www.darkmatter.ae/xen1thlabs/published-advisories/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 20190624 XL-19-004 - ABB IDAL FTP Server Uncontrolled Format String Vulnerability (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCx_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://search.abb.com/library/Download.aspx?DocumentID=3ADR010377&LanguageCode=en&DocumentPartId=&Action=Launch (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/153386/ABB-IDAL-FTP-Server-Uncontrolled-Format-String.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 108886 (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-2019-16774 (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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