Memory leak in a certain Red Hat patch, applied to vsftpd 2.0.5 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 and Fedora 6 through 8, and on Foresight Linux and rPath appliances, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large number of CWD commands, as demonstrated by an attack on a daemon with the deny_file configuration option.
Conclusion & alert: CVE-2007-5962 is rated High Exploit Risk (77/100): CVSS High severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 17.15%, 95th percentile). Core evidence: 4 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.
| EDB-ID | Source | Kind | Published | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5814 | exploit_db | edb | 2008-06-14 | Exploit-DB ↗ |
| 31819 | exploit_db | edb | 2008-05-21 | Exploit-DB ↗ |
| 31818 | exploit_db | edb | 2008-05-21 | Exploit-DB ↗ |
| — | nvd_ref | exploit_tag | Exploit-DB ↗ |
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 | 2025-12-06 | 16.71% | 17.15% | +0.44% |
| 2 | 2025-12-04 | 18.83% | 16.71% | -2.12% |
| 3 | 2025-07-12 | — | 18.83% | — |
Full EPSS history (20 records total)
CVSS metrics for this CVE.
| Base score | Version | Severity | Vector | Exploitability | Impact | Score source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7.1 | 2.0 | HIGH |
|
8.6 | 6.9 | [email protected] |
| vendor | priority | summary | link |
|---|---|---|---|
debian
|
unimportant | CVE-2007-5962 unimportant priority: Debian including 1 source packages (vsftpd), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. | https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2007-5962 |
redhat
|
low | — | https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2007-5962 |
ubuntu
|
low | CVE-2007-5962 low priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (vsftpd), 5 status rows across 5 suites (dapper, feisty, gutsy, hardy, upstream): not-affected 5. | https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2007-5962 |
| Vendor | Product | Version | Raw CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
| redhat | enterprise_linux | 5.0 | cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| redhat | fedora | 6 | cpe:2.3:o:redhat:fedora:6:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| redhat | fedora | 7 | cpe:2.3:o:redhat:fedora:7:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| redhat | fedora | 8 | cpe:2.3:o:redhat:fedora:8:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| foresight_linux | appliances | — | cpe:2.3:h:foresight_linux:appliances:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| rpath | appliance_platform_agent | — | cpe:2.3:h:rpath:appliance_platform_agent:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |