Vsftpd vulnerabilitiesRanked by how likely they are to be used.

Product32 versions
The short answer

Vsftpd is made by Vsftpd Project. We track 5 published vulnerabilities in it, across 32 versions. None of them is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. If you run Vsftpd, keep it on a version the vendor still supports.

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Which Vsftpd vulnerabilities are being exploited?

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None of Vsftpd's published vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. We keep watching that list.

Exploit likelihood

Which Vsftpd flaws are most likely to be used?

Ranked by the latest exploit-likelihood forecast: the chance each flaw is used in an attack in the next 30 days. A high severity score on its own doesn't tell you that. Flaws shared by many other makers' products are left out.

50% or more10% to 49%Under 10%
  1. 96%

    vsftpd 2.3.4 downloaded between 20110630 and 20110703 contains a backdoor which opens a shell on port 6200/tcp.

    CVSS9.8Published27 Nov 2019
  2. 74%

    The vsf_filename_passes_filter function in ls.c in vsftpd before 2.3.3 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and process slot exhaustion) via crafted glob expressions in STAT...

    CVSS4.0Published2 Mar 2011
  3. 6.8%

    Unspecified vulnerability in vsftpd 3.0.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to bypass access restrictions via unknown vectors, related to deny_file parsing.

    CVSS5.0Published28 Jan 2015
  4. 3.2%

    VSFTPD 3.0.3 allows attackers to cause a denial of service due to limited number of connections allowed.

    CVSS7.5Published22 Aug 2023
  5. 2.0%

    ALPACA is an application layer protocol content confusion attack, exploiting TLS servers implementing different protocols but using compatible certificates, such as multi-domain or wildcard certificates.

    CVSS7.4Published23 Mar 2022
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We track 5 published vulnerabilities listed under the name Vsftpd, across 32 versions.

None of Vsftpd's vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today.

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