CVE-2022-50799

high

Description

Fetch FTP Client 5.8.2 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows attackers to trigger 100% CPU consumption by sending long server responses. Attackers can send specially crafted FTP server responses exceeding 2K bytes to cause excessive resource utilization and potentially crash the application.

References

https://www.zeroscience.mk/en/vulnerabilities/ZSL-2022-5696.php

https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/fetch-softworks-fetch-ftp-client-remote-cpu-consumption-denial-of-service

https://www.fetchsoftworks.com

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/50696

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-12-30

Updated: 2026-04-15

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High

CVSS v4

Base Score: 7.1

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00041