{"id":"CVE-2005-2850","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2005-2850","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T20:40:11.001Z","title":"SlimFTPd 3.17 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via certain (1) USER and (2) PASS commands, possibly due to a buffer overflow or off-by-one error.","description":"SlimFTPd 3.17 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via certain (1) USER and (2) PASS commands, possibly due to a buffer overflow or off-by-one error.","published":"2005-09-08T10:03:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-16T22:15:47.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"2.0","score":5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P"},"cwe":[],"affected":["whitsoft development/slimftpd"],"epss":{"score":0.07208,"percentile":0.94269,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":1,"verified":true,"firstPublished":"2005-09-02","source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[{"edbId":26219,"kind":"exploit","title":"WhitSoft Development SlimFTPd 3.17 - Remote Denial of Service","url":"https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/26219","sourceUrl":"https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb/-/blob/main/exploits/windows/dos/26219.c","file":"exploits/windows/dos/26219.c","published":"2005-09-02","added":"2005-09-02","updated":"2013-06-16","author":"Critical Security","type":"dos","platform":"windows","port":null,"verified":true,"codes":["CVE-2005-2850","OSVDB-19143"],"tags":null,"aliases":null,"applicationUrl":null,"screenshotUrl":null,"referenceUrl":"http://www.critical.lt/?vulnerabilities/8"}]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"A public exploit is published in Exploit-DB (verified), so the technical barrier is gone even though the severity is medium and EPSS is 7.2%. Treat it as high on anything reachable from the internet."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://securitytracker.com/id?1014831","tags":["Exploit","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.critical.lt/?vulnerabilities/8","tags":["Exploit","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.critical.lt/research/slimftpd_dos2.c","tags":["Exploit","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://securitytracker.com/id?1014831","tags":["Exploit","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.critical.lt/?vulnerabilities/8","tags":["Exploit","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.critical.lt/research/slimftpd_dos2.c","tags":["Exploit","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2005-2850","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}