CVE-2001-1501: ProFTPD Project ProFTPD

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 38.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The glob functionality in ProFTPD 1.2.1, and possibly other versions allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) via commands with large numbers of wildcard and other special characters, as demonstrated using an ls command with multiple (1) "*/..", (2) "*/.*", or (3) ".*./*?/" sequences in the argument.

Affected products

Published 2001-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.