CVE-1999-0997 (GCVE-0-1999-0997)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2000-04-25 04:00
Modified
2024-08-01 16:55
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
wu-ftp with FTP conversion enabled allows an attacker to execute commands via a malformed file name that is interpreted as an argument to the program that does the conversion, e.g. tar or uncompress.
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Impacted products
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