CVE-2024-1190

A vulnerability was found in Global Scape CuteFTP 9.3.0.3 and classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality. The manipulation of the argument Host/Username/Password leads to denial of service. The attack needs to be approached locally. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-252680. NOTE: The vendor was contacted early about this disclosure but did not respond in any way.

Weakness

The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use.

Affected Software

Potential Mitigations

• Use a language that does not allow this weakness to occur or provides constructs that make this weakness easier to avoid.
• For example, languages such as Java, Ruby, and Lisp perform automatic garbage collection that releases memory for objects that have been deallocated.

Related Attack Patterns

• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/125.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/130.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/131.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/494.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/495.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/496.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/666.html

References

• https://fitoxs.com/vuldb/16-exploit-perl.txt
• https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.252680
• https://vuldb.com/?id.252680