CVE-2013-4742

high
Published 2013-08-09 · Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
VIR risk
7.5

Description

Buffer overflow in NetWin SurgeFTP before 23d2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a long string within the authentication request.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No vendor mitigations ingested yet for this CVE. The mitigation-content worker queues fetches as references arrive — check back in a few minutes, or see the references list below.

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
netwinsurgeftp{"endIncluding":"2.3b1"}
netwinsurgeftp2.0c
netwinsurgeftp2.0d
netwinsurgeftp2.0e
netwinsurgeftp2.0f
netwinsurgeftp2.2k1
netwinsurgeftp2.2k3
netwinsurgeftp2.2m1
netwinsurgeftp2.3a1
netwinsurgeftp2.3a2
netwinsurgeftp2.3a6
netwinsurgeftp2.3a7
netwinsurgeftp2.3a8
netwinsurgeftp2.3a9
netwinsurgeftp2.3a10
netwinsurgeftp2.3a12

References

CWEs

CWE-119

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Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.