CVE-2003-1596: Novell Netware

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

NWFTPD.nlm before 5.03.12 in the FTP server in Novell NetWare does not properly restrict filesystem use by anonymous users with NFS Gateway home directories, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions via an FTP session.

Affected products

• Novell Netware: version 5.1 only; version 6.0 only; version 6.5 only
• Novell Netware FTP Server: up to and including 5.03b; version 5.01i only; version 5.01o only; version 5.01w only; version 5.01y only; version 5.02b only; …

Published 2010-04-05. Last modified 2026-06-16.