CVE-2016-5764

high
Published 2016-10-27 ยท Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
8.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
9.8

Description

Micro Focus Rumba FTP 4.X client buffer overflow makes it possible to corrupt the stack and allow arbitrary code execution. Fixed in: Rumba FTP 4.5 (HF 14668). This can only occur if a client connects to a malicious server.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
92%
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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Exploits

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

Exploit-DB

EDB-40651 remote windows
Umit Aksu ยท 2016-10-31

Rumba FTP Client 4.x - Remote Stack Buffer Overflow (SEH)

Source code queued for fetch โ€” refresh in a moment.

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
microfocusrumba_ftp4.0
microfocusrumba_ftp4.1
microfocusrumba_ftp4.2
microfocusrumba_ftp4.3
microfocusrumba_ftp4.4
microfocusrumba_ftp4.5

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.