What is CVE-2007-5962?

CVE-2007-5962 is a vulnerability in Foresight Linux Appliances, classified under CWE-399. Published 2008-05-22.

Is CVE-2007-5962 known to be exploited?

2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Vulnerability in Foresight Linux Appliances

CVE-2007-5962

Memory leak in a certain Red Hat patch, applied to vsftpd 2.0.5 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 and Fedora 6 through 8, and on Foresight Linux and rPath appliances, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large number of CWD commands, as demonstrated by an attack on a daemon with the deny_file configuration option.

Published 2008-05-22 · last modified 2026-06-16.

CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 7.1 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.121 (96.1th percentile), scored 2026-10-24.

Moderate probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — watch for active exploitation reports. 96th percentile — 96.1% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.121 · newest: 0.121 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-399

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0185
www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-May/msg00681.html (vendor-advisory)
secunia.com/advisories/30341 (third-party-advisory)
www.exploit-db.com/exploits/5814 (exploit)
secunia.com/advisories/30354 (third-party-advisory)
www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0295.html (vendor-advisory, Patch)
www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-May/msg00691.html (vendor-advisory)
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/05/21/10 (mailing-list)
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42593 (vdb-entry)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2007-5962?: CVE-2007-5962 is a vulnerability in Foresight Linux Appliances, classified under CWE-399. Published 2008-05-22.
Is CVE-2007-5962 known to be exploited?: 2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.