CVE-2000-1101

Exp

Directory traversal vulnerability in Winsock FTPd (WFTPD) 3.00 and 2.41 with the "Restrict to home directory" option enabled allows local users to escape the home directory via a "/../" string, a variation of the .. (dot dot) attack.

Published: 2001-01-09 Last update: 2026-04-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2000-1101 is rated Exploit Available (50.2/100): CVSS Medium severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.24%). Core evidence: 2 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2000-1101

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗
nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2000-1101

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2025-03-30 0.26% 0.24% -0.03%
2 2025-03-29 0.21% 0.26% +0.05%
3 2024-02-07 0.21%

Full EPSS history (5 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2000-1101

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
5.0 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:P)
Partial confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:N)
No integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:N)
No availability impact.
10.0 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2000-1101

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2000-1101

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
texas_imperial_software wftpd 2.41_rc14 cpe:2.3:a:texas_imperial_software:wftpd:2.41_rc14:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
texas_imperial_software wftpd 2.41_rc14 cpe:2.3:a:texas_imperial_software:wftpd:2.41_rc14:*:pro:*:*:*:*:*
texas_imperial_software wftpd 3.0 cpe:2.3:a:texas_imperial_software:wftpd:3.0:*:pro:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2000-1101

cvelogic Threat Intelligence