CVE-2000-0574: OpenBSD Ftpd

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 58.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

FTP servers such as OpenBSD ftpd, NetBSD ftpd, ProFTPd and Opieftpd do not properly cleanse untrusted format strings that are used in the setproctitle function (sometimes called by set_proc_title), which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary commands.

Affected products

• OpenBSD Ftpd: version 5.51 only; version 5.60 only
• Washington University Wu-Ftpd: version 2.4.2_beta1 only; version 2.4.2_beta18 only; version 2.4.2_beta18_vr4 only; version 2.4.2_beta18_vr5 only; version 2.4.2_beta18_vr6 only; version 2.4.2_beta18_vr7 only; …

Published 2000-07-07. Last modified 2026-06-16.