Security readout for executives and security teams
EFTP, a legacy FTP server, can be crashed by a remote user who sends a malformed string without a newline and then disconnects. This is a denial-of-service issue disclosed in 2000 that makes the service unavailable but does not, per the cited sources, give the attacker control of the system. Exposure is minimal today. EFTP is an obsolete Windows FTP server from the late 1990s and is unlikely to be in production. Any risk is limited to legacy hosts still running EFTP with the FTP port reachable from untrusted networks. Low priority. This is a 25-year-old denial-of-service flaw in obsolete software. Treat it as a hygiene item during legacy-system decommissioning rather than an urgent patch cycle. Address only if EFTP is discovered in the environment. Mitigation focus: Inventory hosts for any remaining EFTP FTP server installations.; Retire EFTP and migrate to a supported, maintained SFTP or FTPS server.; Restrict FTP ports to trusted networks using firewall or ACL controls..
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- eftp-newline-dos(5220)CVE reference · vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF
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