CVE-2014-4643

medium

Published 2014-06-25 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

6.0

Description

Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in the client in Core FTP LE 2.2 build 1798 allow remote FTP servers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long string in a reply to a (1) USER, (2) PASS, (3) PASV, (4) SYST, (5) PWD, or (6) CDUP command.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-33713 dos windows verified

Gabor Seljan · 2014-06-11

Core FTP LE 2.2 - Heap Overflow (PoC)

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
coreftp	core_ftp	`2.2`

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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