CVE-2011-10029

HIGH8.7

Solar FTP Server <= 2.1.1 Malformed USER Denial of Service

Published Aug 20, 2025

Modified 3 months ago

Details

Solar FTP Server fails to properly handle format strings passed to the USER command. When a specially crafted string containing format specifiers is sent, the server crashes due to a read access violation in the __output_1() function of sfsservice.exe. This results in a denial of service (DoS) condition.

References

DETECTION

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/master/modules/auxiliary/dos/windows/ftp/solarftp_user.rb

ADVISORY

https://web.archive.org/web/20111009122553/http://solarftp.com/blog/news/solar-ftp-server-2-1-2.html

WEB

https://web.archive.org/web/20111102141514/https://solarftp.com/

ADVISORY

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2011-10029

DETECTION

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/16204

ADVISORY