Buffer overflow in Coreftp Core FTP

CVE-2014-1443

Core FTP Server 1.2 before build 515 allows remote authenticated users to obtain sensitive information (password for the previous user) via a USER command with a specific length, possibly related to an out-of-bounds read.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

Published 2014-05-02 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 4.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.018 (77.2th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 77th percentile — 77.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.018 · newest: 0.018 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Coreftp Core FTP — versions 1.2

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

packetstormsecurity.com/files/125073/Core-FTP-Server-1.2-DoS-Traversal-Disclosu… (Exploit)
www.osvdb.org/102968 (vdb-entry)
coreftp.com/forums/viewtopic.php (Vendor Advisory)
secunia.com/advisories/56850 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Feb/39 (mailing-list, Exploit)