CVE-2008-3734

highpriority · attend · 52EPSS 0.139 · 97 %ileexploit · functionalEUUS

grimoire priorityP1 · Urgent

Exploitable?

Public exploit

1 exploit · functional

Likely / severe?

13.9% (97th) EPSS

CVSS 9.3 · high

Is it mine?

3 products

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Who says so?

2 sources

enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-28

Format string vulnerability in Ipswitch WS_FTP Home 2007.0.0.2 and WS_FTP Professional 2007.1.0.0 allows remote FTP servers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in a connection greeting (response).

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

9.3

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.09.3highAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:Cprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 8.6 · impact 10

v2.07.9highAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-134USprimary

exploits (1)

Public proof-of-concept and weaponised exploit code.

EDB-6257Ipswitch WS_FTP Home/Professional FTP Client - Remote Format String (PoC)functional · exploit_db

affected products (3)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
ipswitch ws ftp home= 2007.0.0.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:ipswitch:ws_ftp_home:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
ipswitch ws ftp pro= 2007.1.0.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:ipswitch:ws_ftp_pro:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

also known as (2)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2008-08-20modified 2026-06-16

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references (14)

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