| Name | CVE-2021-47865 |
| Description | ProFTPD 1.3.7a contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows attackers to overwhelm the server by creating multiple simultaneous FTP connections. Attackers can repeatedly establish connections using threading to exhaust server connection limits and block legitimate user access. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Bogus CVE assignment, obviously using more connections than available causes
an exhaustion of available connections, but that's not a DoS...
https://github.com/proftpd/proftpd/issues/1298