CVE-2022-50799 - CVE House

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Status published High CVE-2022-50799

Fetch Softworks Fetch FTP Client 5.8.2 Remote CPU Consumption Denial of Service

7.1 CVSS

Vulnerability 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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:

LiquidWorm as Gjoko Krstic of Zero Science Lab

References

Affected Vendor

Fetch Softworks

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Affected Software

Fetch Softworks Fetch FTP Client

Vulnerable Versions:

5.8

Timeline

Official Publish: December 30th, 2025

Last Modified: January 2nd, 2026

Added to House: July 21st, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

T1499 Endpoint Denial of Service

T1498 Network Denial of Service

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application

T1562 Impair Defenses

Defense Evasion

T1046 Network Service Discovery