CVE-1999-0997: Millenux GmbH Anonftp

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 6.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Millenux GmbH Anonftp: version 2.8.1 only
• Red Hat Linux: version 5.2 only; version 6.0 only; version 6.1 only
• University Of Washington Wu-Ftpd: version 2.4.2 only; version 2.5.0 only; version 2.6.0 only

Published 1999-12-20. Last modified 2026-06-16.