CVE-2026-63090 PUBLISHED

ProFTPD mod_sftp Heap Buffer Overflow via SFTP Packet Reassembly

Assigner: VulnCheck
Reserved: 15.07.2026 Published: 20.07.2026 Updated: 20.07.2026

ProFTPD before 1.3.9c and 1.3.10rc3 contains a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the mod_sftp module that allows authenticated low-privilege attackers to achieve arbitrary code execution by sending crafted SFTP packet fragments exceeding the 16 KB reassembly buffer in the fxp.c component. Attackers can supply oversized fragments to trigger an incorrectly conditioned reallocation, corrupt pool freelist metadata, overwrite the root_fs BSS global pointer to reference a fake filesystem struct, and redirect pr_fsio_stat() to system() via a crafted RENAME request.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 8.7

Product Status

Vendor proftpd
Product proftpd
Versions Default: affected
  • affected from 0 to 1.3.9c (excl.)
  • affected from 1.3.10rc1 to 1.3.10rc3 (excl.)

Credits

  • Fabian Wahle with Hap Security finder

References

Problem Types

  • Heap-based Buffer Overflow CWE