CVE-1999-1078: Ipswitch Ws FTP Pro

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 1.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

WS_FTP Pro 6.0 uses weak encryption for passwords in its initialization files, which allows remote attackers to easily decrypt the passwords and gain privileges.

Affected products

Published 1999-07-29. Last modified 2026-06-16.