CVE-2006-6751

Exp

Format string vulnerability in XM Easy Personal FTP Server 5.2.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via format string specifiers in the USER command or certain other available or nonexistent commands. NOTE: It was later reported that 5.3.0 is also vulnerable.

Published: 2006-12-27 Last update: 2026-04-23 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2006-6751 is rated High Exploit Risk (66.7/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 5.62%). 3 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). 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-2006-6751

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
2978 exploit_db edb 2006-12-22 Exploit-DB ↗
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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2006-6751

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 2025-08-15 5.42% 5.62% +0.21%
2 2025-03-30 5.25% 5.42% +0.16%
3 2025-03-29 — 5.25% —

Full EPSS history (10 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2006-6751

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:N/I:N/A:P 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:N)
No confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:N)
No integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
 10.0 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2006-6751

OS Trackers for CVE-2006-6751

vendor priority summary link
alpine — CVE-2006-6751: no source package rows; 0 state rows across 0 repos (none); fixed 0, open 0. https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2006-6751

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2006-6751

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
dxmsoft xm_easy_personal_ftp_server 5.2.1 cpe:2.3:a:dxmsoft:xm_easy_personal_ftp_server:5.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
dxmsoft xm_easy_personal_ftp_server 5.3 cpe:2.3:a:dxmsoft:xm_easy_personal_ftp_server:5.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2006-6751

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