About “ProFTPD”

A curated feed of “ProFTPD”-related CVEs appears below. We currently track 63 CVEs for this tag (all time). In the last 365 days, 4 were published. Average CVSS is 7.2 (all time; 8.4 over 365d), and 63% are rated High/Critical (all time). Top CWEs (last 365 days): CWE-89 - Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection'), CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling, CWE-912 - Hidden Functionality.

In our taxonomy this topic maps to a LOW impact class. Databases, proxies, and web servers often need coordinated restarts and config checks. Patch only modules you deploy, verify TLS and authentication, and tune limits. Use the filters below to sort by CVSS, risk and CWE. Each detail page highlights vendor advisories and mitigation tips.

Support & lifecycle: proftpd

This table shows recent release cycles and their projected end-of-life. Data source: endoflife.date.

CycleReleaseLatestPremier SupportEOLLTS
1.3.91.3.9Unavailable-
1.3.81.3.8d-
1.3.71.3.7f Expired
1.3.61.3.6e Expired
1.3.51.3.5e Expired

Maintained Soon (≤ 180 days) Expired

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CVSS ≥ 0.0
2026-05-05
High

CVE-2026-44331

In ProFTPD through 1.3.9a before 7666224, a SQL injection vulnerability in sqltab_fetch_clients_cb() in contrib/mod_wrap2_sql.c allows a remote attacker to inject arbitrary SQL commands via a crafted…

2026-04-28
High

CVE-2026-42167

mod_sql in ProFTPD before 1.3.9a allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a username, in scenarios where there is logging of USER requests with an expansion such as %U, and the SQL backe…

2026-01-21
High

CVE-2021-47865

ProFTPD 1.3.7a contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows attackers to overwhelm the server by creating multiple simultaneous FTP connections. Attackers can repeatedly establish connectio…

2025-08-20
Critical

CVE-2010-20103

A malicious backdoor was embedded in the official ProFTPD 1.3.3c source tarball distributed between November 28 and December 2, 2010. The backdoor implements a hidden FTP command trigger that, when i…

2025-02-06
High

CVE-2024-57392

Buffer Overflow vulnerability in Proftpd commit 4017eff8 allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code and can cause a Denial of Service (DoS) on the FTP service by sending a maliciously crafted…

2025-01-14
Critical

CVE-2024-39795

Multiple external config control vulnerabilities exist in the nas.cgi set_nas() proftpd functionality of Wavlink AC3000 M33A8.V5030.210505. A specially crafted HTTP request can lead to permission byp…

Critical

CVE-2024-39794

Multiple external config control vulnerabilities exist in the nas.cgi set_nas() proftpd functionality of Wavlink AC3000 M33A8.V5030.210505. A specially crafted HTTP request can lead to permission byp…

Critical

CVE-2024-39793

Multiple external config control vulnerabilities exist in the nas.cgi set_nas() proftpd functionality of Wavlink AC3000 M33A8.V5030.210505. A specially crafted HTTP request can lead to permission byp…

2024-11-29
High

CVE-2024-48651

In ProFTPD through 1.3.8b before cec01cc, supplemental group inheritance grants unintended access to GID 0 because of the lack of supplemental groups from mod_sql.

2023-12-22
High

CVE-2023-51713

make_ftp_cmd in main.c in ProFTPD before 1.3.8a has a one-byte out-of-bounds read, and daemon crash, because of mishandling of quote/backslash semantics.

2023-12-18
Medium

CVE-2023-48795

The SSH transport protocol with certain OpenSSH extensions, found in OpenSSH before 9.6 and other products, allows remote attackers to bypass integrity checks such that some packets are omitted (from…

2022-11-23
High

CVE-2021-46854

mod_radius in ProFTPD before 1.3.7c allows memory disclosure to RADIUS servers because it copies blocks of 16 characters.

2020-02-20
High

CVE-2020-9273

In ProFTPD 1.3.7, it is possible to corrupt the memory pool by interrupting the data transfer channel. This triggers a use-after-free in alloc_pool in pool.c, and possible remote code execution.

High

CVE-2020-9272

ProFTPD 1.3.7 has an out-of-bounds (OOB) read vulnerability in mod_cap via the cap_text.c cap_to_text function.

2019-11-30
Medium

CVE-2019-19269

An issue was discovered in tls_verify_crl in ProFTPD through 1.3.6b. A dereference of a NULL pointer may occur. This pointer is returned by the OpenSSL sk_X509_REVOKED_value() function when encounter…

2019-11-26
High

CVE-2019-19272

An issue was discovered in tls_verify_crl in ProFTPD before 1.3.6. Direct dereference of a NULL pointer (a variable initialized to NULL) leads to a crash when validating the certificate of a client c…

High

CVE-2019-19271

An issue was discovered in tls_verify_crl in ProFTPD before 1.3.6. A wrong iteration variable, used when checking a client certificate against CRL entries (installed by a system administrator), can c…

High

CVE-2019-19270

An issue was discovered in tls_verify_crl in ProFTPD through 1.3.6b. Failure to check for the appropriate field of a CRL entry (checking twice for subject, rather than once for subject and once for i…

2019-10-21
High

CVE-2019-18217

ProFTPD before 1.3.6b and 1.3.7rc before 1.3.7rc2 allows remote unauthenticated denial-of-service due to incorrect handling of overly long commands because main.c in a child process enters an infinit…

2019-07-19
Critical

CVE-2019-12815

An arbitrary file copy vulnerability in mod_copy in ProFTPD up to 1.3.5b allows for remote code execution and information disclosure without authentication, a related issue to CVE-2015-3306.

2017-04-04
Medium

CVE-2017-7418

ProFTPD before 1.3.5e and 1.3.6 before 1.3.6rc5 controls whether the home directory of a user could contain a symbolic link through the AllowChrootSymlinks configuration option, but checks only the l…

2016-04-05
High

CVE-2016-3125

The mod_tls module in ProFTPD before 1.3.5b and 1.3.6 before 1.3.6rc2 does not properly handle the TLSDHParamFile directive, which might cause a weaker than intended Diffie-Hellman (DH) key to be use…

2015-05-18
Critical

CVE-2015-3306

The mod_copy module in ProFTPD 1.3.5 allows remote attackers to read and write to arbitrary files via the site cpfr and site cpto commands.

2013-09-30
Medium

CVE-2013-4359

Integer overflow in kbdint.c in mod_sftp in ProFTPD 1.3.4d and 1.3.5r3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large response count value in an authentication…

2013-01-24
Low

CVE-2012-6095

ProFTPD before 1.3.5rc1, when using the UserOwner directive, allows local users to modify the ownership of arbitrary files via a race condition and a symlink attack on the (1) MKD or (2) XMKD command…

2012-02-02
Medium

CVE-2010-4562

Microsoft Windows 2008, 7, Vista, 2003, 2000, and XP, when using IPv6, allows remote attackers to determine whether a host is sniffing the network by sending an ICMPv6 Echo Request to a multicast add…

2011-12-06
Critical

CVE-2011-4130

Use-after-free vulnerability in the Response API in ProFTPD before 1.3.3g allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code via vectors involving an error that occurs after an FTP data tran…

2011-03-11
Medium

CVE-2011-1137

Integer overflow in the mod_sftp (aka SFTP) module in ProFTPD 1.3.3d and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption leading to OOM kill) via a malformed SSH mess…

2011-02-02
Medium

CVE-2010-4652

Heap-based buffer overflow in the sql_prepare_where function (contrib/mod_sql.c) in ProFTPD before 1.3.3d, when mod_sql is enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and po…

2011-01-13
Medium

CVE-2010-4052

Stack consumption vulnerability in the regcomp implementation in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) through 2.11.3, and 2.12.x through 2.12.2, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial…

Medium

CVE-2010-4051

The regcomp implementation in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) through 2.11.3, and 2.12.x through 2.12.2, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via…

2010-11-09
Critical

CVE-2010-4221

Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in the pr_netio_telnet_gets function in netio.c in ProFTPD before 1.3.3c allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors involving a TELNET IAC esca…

High

CVE-2010-3867

Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in the mod_site_misc module in ProFTPD before 1.3.3c allow remote authenticated users to create directories, delete directories, create symlinks, and modi…

Medium

CVE-2008-7265

The pr_data_xfer function in ProFTPD before 1.3.2rc3 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via an ABOR command during a data transfer.

2009-10-28
Medium

CVE-2009-3639

The mod_tls module in ProFTPD before 1.3.2b, and 1.3.3 before 1.3.3rc2, when the dNSNameRequired TLS option is enabled, does not properly handle a '\0' character in a domain name in the Subject Alter…

2009-03-16
High

CVE-2009-0919

XAMPP installs multiple packages with insecure default passwords, which makes it easier for remote attackers to obtain access via (1) the "lampp" default password for the "nobody" account within the…

2009-02-12
Medium

CVE-2009-0543

ProFTPD Server 1.3.1, with NLS support enabled, allows remote attackers to bypass SQL injection protection mechanisms via invalid, encoded multibyte characters, which are not properly handled in (1)…

High

CVE-2009-0542

SQL injection vulnerability in ProFTPD Server 1.3.1 through 1.3.2rc2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via a "%" (percent) character in the username, which introduces a "'" (s…

2008-09-25
Medium

CVE-2008-4242

ProFTPD 1.3.1 interprets long commands from an FTP client as multiple commands, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks and execute arbitrary FTP commands v…

2007-04-22
Medium

CVE-2007-2165

The Auth API in ProFTPD before 20070417, when multiple simultaneous authentication modules are configured, does not require that the module that checks authentication is the same as the module that r…

2007-04-10
Medium

CVE-2007-1926

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in JBMC Software DirectAdmin before 1.293 does not properly display log files, which allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML…

2006-12-15
Medium

CVE-2006-6563

Stack-based buffer overflow in the pr_ctrls_recv_request function in ctrls.c in the mod_ctrls module in ProFTPD before 1.3.1rc1 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a large reqarglen leng…

2006-11-30
High

CVE-2006-6170

Buffer overflow in the tls_x509_name_oneline function in the mod_tls module, as used in ProFTPD 1.3.0a and earlier, and possibly other products, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via…

High

CVE-2006-6171

ProFTPD 1.3.0a and earlier does not properly set the buffer size limit when CommandBufferSize is specified in the configuration file, which leads to an off-by-two buffer underflow. NOTE: in November…

2006-11-08
Critical

CVE-2006-5815

Stack-based buffer overflow in the sreplace function in ProFTPD 1.3.0 and earlier allows remote attackers, probably authenticated, to cause a denial of service and execute arbitrary code, as demonstr…

2005-12-31
High

CVE-2005-4816

Buffer overflow in mod_radius in ProFTPD before 1.3.0rc2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long password.

2005-07-27
Medium

CVE-2005-2390

Multiple format string vulnerabilities in ProFTPD before 1.3.0rc2 allow attackers to cause a denial of service or obtain sensitive information via (1) certain inputs to the shutdown message from ftps…

2005-03-30
High

CVE-2005-0484

Format string vulnerability in gprostats for GProFTPD before 8.1.9 may allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an FTP transfer with a crafted filename that causes format string specifier…

2004-11-23
High

CVE-2004-0346

Off-by-one buffer overflow in _xlate_ascii_write() in ProFTPD 1.2.7 through 1.2.9rc2p allows local users to gain privileges via a 1024 byte RETR command.

2004-10-15
Medium

CVE-2004-1602

ProFTPD 1.2.x, including 1.2.8 and 1.2.10, responds in a different amount of time when a given username exists, which allows remote attackers to identify valid usernames by timing the server response.

2004-08-18
High

CVE-2004-0432

ProFTPD 1.2.9 treats the Allow and Deny directives for CIDR based ACL entries as if they were AllowAll, which could allow FTP clients to bypass intended access restrictions.

2003-11-17
Critical

CVE-2003-0831

ProFTPD 1.2.7 through 1.2.9rc2 does not properly translate newline characters when transferring files in ASCII mode, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a buffer overflow usin…

2003-08-07
Critical

CVE-2003-0500

SQL injection vulnerability in the PostgreSQL authentication module (mod_sql_postgres) for ProFTPD before 1.2.9rc1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL and gain privileges by bypassing au…

2001-12-31
High

CVE-2001-1500

ProFTPD 1.2.2rc2, and possibly other versions, does not properly verify reverse-resolved hostnames by performing forward resolution, which allows remote attackers to bypass ACLs or cause an incorrect…

Medium

CVE-2001-1501

The glob functionality in ProFTPD 1.2.1, and possibly other versions allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) via commands with large numbers of wildcard and…

2001-06-27
High

CVE-2001-0456

postinst installation script for Proftpd in Debian 2.2 does not properly change the "run as uid/gid root" configuration when the user enables anonymous access, which causes the server to run at a hig…

2001-06-02
High

CVE-2001-0318

Format string vulnerability in ProFTPD 1.2.0rc2 may allow attackers to execute arbitrary commands by shutting down the FTP server while using a malformed working directory (cwd).

2001-03-12
Medium

CVE-2001-0136

Memory leak in ProFTPd 1.2.0rc2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a series of USER commands, and possibly SIZE commands if the server has been improperly installed.

2001-02-12
High

CVE-2001-0027

mod_sqlpw module in ProFTPD does not reset a cached password when a user uses the "user" command to change accounts, which allows authenticated attackers to gain privileges of other users.

2000-07-07
Medium

CVE-2000-0574

FTP servers such as OpenBSD ftpd, NetBSD ftpd, ProFTPd and Opieftpd do not properly cleanse untrusted format strings that are used in the setproctitle function (sometimes called by set_proc_title), w…

1999-11-19
Medium

CVE-1999-1475

ProFTPd 1.2 compiled with the mod_sqlpw module records user passwords in the wtmp log file, which allows local users to obtain the passwords and gain privileges by reading wtmp, e.g. via the last com…

1999-08-27
Critical

CVE-1999-0911

Buffer overflow in ProFTPD, wu-ftpd, and beroftpd allows remote attackers to gain root access via a series of MKD and CWD commands that create nested directories.

1999-02-09
Critical

CVE-1999-0368

Buffer overflows in wuarchive ftpd (wu-ftpd) and ProFTPD lead to remote root access, a.k.a. palmetto.

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