CVE-1999-0911: ProFTPD Project ProFTPD

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 38.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• ProFTPD Project ProFTPD: version 1.2_pre1 only; version 1.2_pre2 only; version 1.2_pre3 only; version 1.2_pre4 only; version 1.2_pre5 only

Published 1999-08-27. Last modified 2026-06-16.