CVE-2012-5329
Buffer overflow in TYPSoft FTP Server 1.1 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a long string in an APPE command.
Does this matter?
2 public exploits are published in Exploit-DB (verified), so the technical barrier is gone even though the severity is medium and EPSS is 8.5%. Treat it as high on anything reachable from the internet.
Description
Buffer overflow in TYPSoft FTP Server 1.1 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a long string in an APPE command.
- CVSS 2.0
- 4.0 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
- EPSS
- 8.54% probability · 95th percentile
- Public exploits
- 2 in Exploit-DB · verified · first 17 March 2012
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-119
- Affected
- typsoft/typsoft ftp server
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS 8.5% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
Public exploits (2)
Entries in Exploit-DB that cite this CVE. Links go to the Exploit-DB page and to the file in the public repository; nothing is hosted here. A verified tick means the Exploit-DB team confirmed the exploit works against the stated version.
References
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.