CVE-2004-0255: Xlight FTP Server

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 7.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Xlight 1.52, with log to screen enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by requesting a long directory consisting of . (dot) and / (slash) characters, which causes the server to crash when the administrator views the log file, possibly triggering a buffer overflow.

Affected products

• Xlight FTP Server Xlight FTP Server: version 1.25 only; version 1.41 only; version 1.45 only; version 1.52 only

Published 2004-11-23. Last modified 2026-06-16.