CVE-2011-3976

medium

Published 2011-10-04 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.8

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in AmmSoft ScriptFTP 3.3 allows remote FTP servers to execute arbitrary code via a long filename in a response to a LIST command, as demonstrated using (1) GETLIST or (2) GETFILE in a ScriptFTP script.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-17948 remote windows verified

Metasploit · 2011-10-09

ScriptFTP 3.3 - LIST Remote Buffer Overflow (Metasploit) (2)

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

EDB-17876 remote windows verified

modpr0be · 2011-09-20

ScriptFTP 3.3 - Remote Buffer Overflow (LIST) (1)

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

EDB-17904 remote windows

otoy · 2011-09-29

ScriptFTP 3.3 - Remote Buffer Overflow (Metasploit)

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Metasploit modules

exploit_windows/ftp/scriptftp_list rank 400

ScriptFTP LIST Remote Buffer Overflow

Source fetch failed: fetch_error — view the original via the link above.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
ammsoft	scriptftp	`3.3`

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.