VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE
CVE-1999-0997
CVSS score7.5 HIGH
EPSS probability6.22%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published1999-12-20
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Description
wu-ftp with FTP conversion enabled allows an attacker to execute commands via a malformed file name that is interpreted as an argument to the program that does the conversion, e.g. tar or uncompress.