CVE-2015-5917: Netbsd Tnftpd

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The glob implementation in tnftpd (formerly lukemftpd), as used in Apple OS X before 10.11, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and daemon outage) via a STAT command containing a crafted pattern, as demonstrated by multiple instances of the {..,..,..}/* substring.

Affected products

• Netbsd Tnftpd: any version

Published 2015-10-09. Last modified 2026-06-17.