CVE-2017-1000218

critical

Published 2017-11-17 · Modified 2026-05-13

CVSS v3

9.8

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2

7.5

VIR risk

9.8

Description

LightFTP version 1.1 is vulnerable to a buffer overflow in the "writelogentry" function resulting a denial of services or a remote code execution.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

97%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

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Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
hfiref0x	lightftp	`1.1`

References

CWEs

CWE-119

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