CVE-2011-10029 (GCVE-0-2011-10029)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-08-20 15:40
Modified
2025-08-20 18:20
Severity ?
8.7 (High) - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CWE
  • CWE-134 - Use of Externally-Controlled Format String
Summary
Solar FTP Server fails to properly handle format strings passed to the USER command. When a specially crafted string containing format specifiers is sent, the server crashes due to a read access violation in the __output_1() function of sfsservice.exe. This results in a denial of service (DoS) condition.
References
disclosure@vulncheck.comhttps://raw.githubusercontent.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/master/modules/auxiliary/dos/windows/ftp/solarftp_user.rb
disclosure@vulncheck.comhttps://web.archive.org/web/20111009122553/http://solarftp.com/blog/news/solar-ftp-server-2-1-2.html
disclosure@vulncheck.comhttps://web.archive.org/web/20111102141514/https://solarftp.com/
disclosure@vulncheck.comhttps://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/16204
disclosure@vulncheck.comhttps://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/solar-ftp-server-malformed-user-dos
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Flexbyte Software Solar FTP Server Version: *   ≤ 2.1.1
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