What is CVE-2019-20176?

CVE-2019-20176 is a high-severity vulnerability in Pureftpd Pure-ftpd, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2019-12-31.

How severe is CVE-2019-20176?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.

Resource exhaustion in Pureftpd Pure-ftpd

CVE-2019-20176

In Pure-FTPd 1.0.49, a stack exhaustion issue was discovered in the listdir function in ls.c.

Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)

EPSS: 0.044 (90.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Pureftpd Pure-ftpd — versions 1.0.49
Fedoraproject Fedora — versions 30, 31
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

cve@mitre.org (Patch, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_FEDORA, vendor-advisory)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_FEDORA, vendor-advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2019-20176?: CVE-2019-20176 is a high-severity vulnerability in Pureftpd Pure-ftpd, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2019-12-31.
How severe is CVE-2019-20176?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.