CVE-2019-25686 (GCVE-0-2019-25686)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-04-05 20:45 – Updated: 2026-04-06 15:43
VLAI
Title
Core FTP 2.0 build 653 PBSZ Unauthenticated Denial of Service
Summary
Core FTP 2.0 build 653 contains a denial of service vulnerability in the PBSZ command that allows unauthenticated attackers to crash the service by sending a malformed command with an oversized buffer. Attackers can send a PBSZ command with a payload exceeding 211 bytes to trigger an access violation and crash the FTP server process.
SSVC
Exploitation: poc Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-306 - Missing Authentication for Critical Function
Assigner
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Coreftp Core FTP Affected: 2.0
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Date Public
2019-03-12 00:00
Credits
Hodorsec (hodorsec@protonmail.com / hodor@hodorsec.com)
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