CVE-2001-0550: David Madore Ftpd-Bsd

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 74.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

wu-ftpd 2.6.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a "~{" argument to commands such as CWD, which is not properly handled by the glob function (ftpglob).

Affected products

• David Madore Ftpd-Bsd: version 0.3.2 only; version 0.3.3 only
• Washington University Wu-Ftpd: version 2.5.0 only; version 2.6.0 only; version 2.6.1 only

Published 2001-11-30. Last modified 2026-06-16.