VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2012-6067

critical
Published 2012-12-04 · 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
10.0

Description

freeFTPd.exe in freeFTPd through 1.0.11 allows remote attackers to bypass authentication via a crafted SFTP session, as demonstrated by an OpenSSH client with modified versions of ssh.c and sshconnect2.c.

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.

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
freeftpdfreeftpd{"endIncluding":"1.0.11"}
freeftpdfreeftpd1.0
freeftpdfreeftpd1.0.1
freeftpdfreeftpd1.0.2
freeftpdfreeftpd1.0.3
freeftpdfreeftpd1.0.4
freeftpdfreeftpd1.0.5
freeftpdfreeftpd1.0.6
freeftpdfreeftpd1.0.7
freeftpdfreeftpd1.0.8
freeftpdfreeftpd1.0.10

References

CWEs

CWE-287

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

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