CVE-2007-5962

Estado: ModificadaAlta (7.1)—

Memory leak in a certain Red Hat patch, applied to vsftpd 2.0.5 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 and Fedora 6 through 8, and on Foresight Linux and rPath appliances, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large number of CWD commands, as demonstrated by an attack on a daemon with the deny_file configuration option.

CVSS

Versión: 2.0
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Puntuación base: 7.1

Probabilidad de explotación (EPSS)

Probabilidad de explotación en los próximos 30 días: 12%
Percentil entre todas las CVEs puntuadas: 96
Fecha de la puntuación: 6/10/2026

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, de FIRST) estima la probabilidad de que una vulnerabilidad sea explotada en 30 días. Complementa a CVSS (impacto) y a CISA KEV (explotación confirmada).

Tecnologías afectadas (4)

Foresight Linux — Appliances Redhat — Enterprise Linux Redhat — Fedora Rpath — Appliance Platform Agent

CWE

CWE-399

Referencias

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