CVE-2017-15271

MediumCVSS 5.9/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

A use-after-free issue could be triggered remotely in the SFTP component of PSFTPd 10.0.4 Build 729. This issue could be triggered prior to authentication. The PSFTPd server did not automatically restart, which enabled attackers to perform a very effective DoS attack against this service. By sending a crafted SSH identification / version string to the server, a NULL pointer dereference could be caused, apparently because of a race condition in the window message handling, performing the cleanup for invalid connections. This incorrect cleanup code has a use-after-free.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 5.9/10CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-416

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Nov 15, 2017
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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