CVE-2006-5815
HIGH · CVSS 10.0EPSS 75.5%EU EUVD
Stack-based buffer overflow in the sreplace function in ProFTPD 1.3.0 and earlier allows remote attackers, probably authenticated, to cause a denial of service and execute arbitrary code, as demonstrated by vd_proftpd.pm, a "ProFTPD remote exploit."
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 10.0 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-119
- EPSS score
- 75.5% (100th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2006-5799)
- Published
- November 8, 2006
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2006-5799 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- proftpd project / proftpd
References
- http://bugs.proftpd.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2858
- http://gleg.net/vulndisco_meta.shtml
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22803(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22821(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23000(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23069(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23125(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23174(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23179(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23184(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23207(Vendor Advisory)
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1017167
- http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2006&m=slackware-security.502491
- http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1222
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200611-26.xml
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:217
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:217-1
- http://www.openpkg.org/security/advisories/OpenPKG-SA-2006.035-proftpd.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/452760/100/200/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20992
- http://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0066/
- http://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0070
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4451(Vendor Advisory)
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=214820
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30147
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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