CVE-2005-4816: ProFTPD Project ProFTPD

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 12.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in mod_radius in ProFTPD before 1.3.0rc2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long password.

Affected products

• ProFTPD Project ProFTPD: version 1.2 only; version 1.2.0_rc1 only; version 1.2.0_rc2 only; version 1.2.0_rc3 only; version 1.2.1 only; version 1.2.2 only; …

Published 2005-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.