CVE-2022-50799 (GCVE-0-2022-50799)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-30 22:41 – Updated: 2025-12-30 22:41
VLAI?
Title
Fetch Softworks Fetch FTP Client 5.8.2 Remote CPU Consumption Denial of Service
Summary
Fetch FTP Client 5.8.2 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows attackers to trigger 100% CPU consumption by sending long server responses. Attackers can send specially crafted FTP server responses exceeding 2K bytes to cause excessive resource utilization and potentially crash the application.
Severity ?
7.1 (High)
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Fetch Softworks Fetch Softworks Fetch FTP Client Affected: 5.8
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Credits
LiquidWorm as Gjoko Krstic of Zero Science Lab
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