CVE-2008-4247
ftpd in OpenBSD 4.3, FreeBSD 7.0, NetBSD 4.0, Solaris, and possibly other operating systems interprets long commands from an FTP client as multiple commands, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks and execute arbitrary FTP commands via a long ftp:// URI that leverages an existing session from the FTP client implementation in a web browser.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.5 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-352
- EPSS score
- 5.3% (93th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2008-4230)
- Published
- September 25, 2008
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2008-4230 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- freebsd / freebsd
- netbsd / netbsd
- openbsd / openbsd
References
- ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2008-014.txt.asc
- http://bugs.proftpd.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3115
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32068
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32070
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33341
- http://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-08:12.ftpd.asc
- http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/56
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4313
- http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/libexec/ftpd/ftpcmd.y
- http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/libexec/ftpd/ftpcmd.y.diff?r1=1.51&r2=1.52&f=h(Exploit)
- http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/libexec/ftpd/ftpd.c
- http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/libexec/ftpd/ftpd.c.diff?r1=1.183&r2=1.184&f=h(Exploit)
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuoct2010-175626.html
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020946
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021112
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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