CVE-1999-0997

High CVSS 7.5

Published 1999-12-20 · last changed 2026-06-16

The fix

We hold no Microsoft remediation data for CVE-1999-0997, which normally means it is not a Windows CVE. For non-Microsoft software the fix is the vendor's own updated release, and the affected versions are listed below.

What it is

wu-ftp with FTP conversion enabled allows an attacker to execute commands via a malformed file name that is interpreted as an argument to the program that does the conversion, e.g. tar or uncompress.

Sources

NVD record for CVE-1999-0997

CVSS vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P