CVE-2008-1052

Exp

The administration web interface in NetWin SurgeFTP 2.3a2 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a large integer in the Content-Length HTTP header, which triggers a NULL pointer dereference when memory allocation fails.

Published: 2008-02-27 Last update: 2026-06-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2008-1052 is rated High Exploit Risk (73.1/100): CVSS Medium severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 6.80%, 93th percentile). Core evidence: 1 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-2008-1052

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
31302 exploit_db edb 2008-02-25 Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2008-1052

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 2026-06-15 6.91% 6.80% -0.11%
2 2026-05-14 6.98% 6.91% -0.08%
3 2025-12-16 6.98%

Full EPSS history (16 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2008-1052

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
6.4 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/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:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
10.0 4.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2008-1052

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2008-1052

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
netwin surgeftp 2.3a2 cpe:2.3:a:netwin:surgeftp:2.3a2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2008-1052

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