CVE-2002-1522: Cooolsoft Powerftp

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 13.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in PowerFTP FTP server 2.24, and possibly other versions, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long USER argument.

Affected products

• Cooolsoft Powerftp: version 2.03 only; version 2.10 only; version 2.23 only; version 2.24 only

Published 2003-04-02. Last modified 2026-06-16.