CVE-2026-67191 PUBLISHED

Xlight FTP Server < 3.9.5 Pre-Auth Heap Buffer Overflow via SSH Parser

Assigner: VulnCheck
Reserved: 28.07.2026 Published: 29.07.2026 Updated: 29.07.2026

Xlight FTP Server before 3.9.5 contains a pre-authentication heap buffer overflow vulnerability that allows remote unauthenticated attackers to write past the end of a heap buffer by sending a malformed SSH client identification string. A logic error in the recv loop's termination condition uses an incorrect OR operator where an AND operator is required, enabling exploitation on any SSH or SFTP connection before authentication occurs.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 9.3

Product Status

Vendor Xlight
Product Xlight FTP Server
Versions Default: affected
  • affected from 0 to 3.9.5 (excl.)

Credits

  • McCaulay Hudson (@_McCaulay) of watchTowr finder

References

Problem Types

  • Heap-based Buffer Overflow CWE