CVE-1999-0080: Washington University Wu-Ftpd

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Certain configurations of wu-ftp FTP server 2.4 use a _PATH_EXECPATH setting to a directory with dangerous commands, such as /bin, which allows remote authenticated users to gain root access via the "site exec" command.

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Published 1995-11-30. Last modified 2026-06-16.