CVE-2015-3306

CRITICALPre-NVD 10.010.0
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to the CVSS score beside it.

Score elevated to 10.0 because this CVE is listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2026-10-08), indicating real-world exploitation has been confirmed by US federal agencies. CISA-ADP (Vulnrichment) CVSS v3.1 baseline 10.0 retained for reference (NVD's own analysis pending). Confidence: HIGH.

Triggered by: CISA KEV (actively exploited)
Sources: CISA-ADP (Vulnrichment) CVSS v3.1, CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory
Trending — 4 sources updated this weekExploited in the wild

Also known asEUVD-2015-3352 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-4mfj-5wr8-x32q (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

10.0EG
EchelonGraph verdictPatch nowTreat as an emergency — this is being exploited.
  • Actively exploited in the wild (CISA-KEV) — the reason this is sooner than the SSVC decision on this page at low mission impact
CISA-KEV: ExploitedEPSS PROB: 99%CVSS: 10.0Exploit: Metasploit · Exploit-DB (verified) · other public PoCExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

The mod_copy module in ProFTPD 1.3.5 allows remote attackers to read and write to arbitrary files via the site cpfr and site cpto commands.

CVSS v3
10.0
EG Score
10.0CRITICALhigh confidence
EG Risk
100
EG Risk 100/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity100% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 10.0 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation100% × 40%
Fixed at 100% for a CISA KEV listing: EchelonGraph's rule.
Automatability100% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: yes (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Attend at low mission impact; Act at medium or high.
Exploitation active (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it sooner than your standard update timelines at low mission impact and as soon as possible at medium or high.
EPSS PROB
99%
EPSS %ILE
99th
KEV
⚠ Exploited

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (10.0): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 10.0 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
10.0 CRITICALCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
99% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-31). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
CISA KEV and EG-KEV Tier 1 (exploited in the wild)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Act at medium mission impactAttend at low mission impact; Act at medium or high.CISA BOD 26-04: 3 days & forensic triage if the affected system is publicly exposed; 3 days & forensic triage if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Attend at low mission impact; Act at medium or high.

A fix is available. Apply it sooner than your standard update timelines at low mission impact and as soon as possible at medium or high.

Exploitation active (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)3 days & forensic triage if the affected system is publicly exposed; 3 days & forensic triage if it is not.

The score's inputs: In CISA KEV yes (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

CISA required action“Apply mitigations in accordance with vendor instructions, ensuring compliance with CISA’s BOD 26-04 Prioritizing Security Updates Based on Risk (see URL in Notes) guidance and CISA’s “Forensics Triage Requirements” (see URL in Notes). Follow applicable BOD 26-04 guidance for cloud services or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable. Stakeholders are responsible for evaluating each asset's internet exposure and ensuring adherence to BOD 26-04 patching guidelines.”

Quoted verbatim from CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. CISA directs it at US federal civilian executive branch agencies under Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 26-04, which replaced BOD 22-01 on 10 June 2026; it is not EchelonGraph's advice. CISA's notes: https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2015/msg00154.html · https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/updates@lists.opensuse.org/message/WE6YZRG5UVXMGQ7IVDRYBPIWV4M6UUGM/ · https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/directives/bod-26-04-prioritizing-security-updates-based-risk · https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/directives/bod-26-04-implementation-guidance-prioritizing-security-updates-based-risk · https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-3306

Published

May 18, 2015

Last Modified

October 9, 2026

Advisory Details (9)

Auto-updated Oct 30, 2026
⚠️ Actively exploited (CISA KEV, CISA Vulnrichment). Patch available.

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2015-3306(1)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Affected Packages

(6 across 6 ecosystems)
Debian:11(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
proftpd-dfsg—
  • every version up to 1.3.5-2: fixed in 1.3.5-2
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Debian:12(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
proftpd-dfsg—
  • every version up to 1.3.5-2: fixed in 1.3.5-2
—
Debian:13(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
proftpd-dfsg—
  • every version up to 1.3.5-2: fixed in 1.3.5-2
—
Debian:14(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
proftpd-dfsg—
  • every version up to 1.3.5-2: fixed in 1.3.5-2
—
Debian:7(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
proftpd-dfsg1.3.4a-4+nmu1, 1.3.4a-5+deb7u1, 1.3.4a-5+deb7u2
  • every version up to 1.3.4a-5+deb7u3: fixed in 1.3.4a-5+deb7u3
—
Debian:8(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
proftpd-dfsg1.3.5-1.1
  • every version up to 1.3.5-1.1+deb8u1: fixed in 1.3.5-1.1+deb8u1
—

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 15× in last 7d / 88× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 99 of 4,473 refreshes on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. 1 repeat row among the latest 100 is merged into the row it repeats. The 4,374 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-11-02 06:25 UTCOSV refresh
  2. 2026-11-01 14:16 UTCEG score recompute
  3. 2026-11-01 14:16 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-4mfj-5wr8-x32q · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
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  12. 2026-10-27 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 99% · 99th percentile
  13. 2026-10-27 12:35 UTCEG score recompute
  14. 2026-10-27 12:35 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-4mfj-5wr8-x32q · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  15. 2026-10-26 12:15 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-4mfj-5wr8-x32q · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
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  17. 2026-10-25 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 99% · 99th percentile
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  19. 2026-10-25 11:55 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-4mfj-5wr8-x32q · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
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  1. 2026-10-21 10:34 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-10-21 10:33 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-4mfj-5wr8-x32q · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
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  8. 2026-10-18 09:28 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-4mfj-5wr8-x32q · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  9. 2026-10-17 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 99% · 99th percentile
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  11. 2026-10-17 09:07 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-4mfj-5wr8-x32q · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
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  30. 2026-10-11 03:48 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-4mfj-5wr8-x32q · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
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  33. 2026-10-10 19:59 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-4mfj-5wr8-x32q · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  34. 2026-10-10 19:54 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 99% · 99th percentile
  35. 2026-10-10 16:03 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-4mfj-5wr8-x32q · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
  36. 2026-10-10 12:09 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-4mfj-5wr8-x32q · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
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  42. 2026-10-09 20:01 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 98% · 99th percentile
  43. 2026-10-09 16:32 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-4mfj-5wr8-x32q · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
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  52. 2026-10-08 23:58 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-4mfj-5wr8-x32q · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 10.0
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  56. 2026-10-08 18:24 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-4mfj-5wr8-x32q · GitHub severity HIGH
  57. 2026-10-08 17:54 UTCMITRE cvelistV5CVSS v3 → 10 · severity → CRITICAL
  58. 2026-10-08 17:48 UTCEG score recompute▼ 1.00
  59. 2026-10-08 17:47 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-4mfj-5wr8-x32q · GitHub severity HIGH
  60. 2026-10-08 17:42 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-4mfj-5wr8-x32q · GitHub severity HIGH
  61. 2026-10-08 17:35 UTCCISA KEV update
  62. 2026-10-07 23:40 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 97% · 99th percentile
  63. 2026-10-05 04:13 UTCOSV refresh
  64. 2026-09-30 09:03 UTCEG score recompute
  65. 2026-09-27 13:40 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 97% · 99th percentile
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  67. 2026-09-15 12:24 UTCOSV refresh
  68. 2026-09-11 09:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 97% · 99th percentile
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  73. 2026-08-27 11:53 UTCOSV refresh
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Publicly available exploits

(8 references)

Public exploit code is referenced for this CVE (1 Metasploit module, 4 Exploit-DB entries, 2 GitHub PoCs), as is 1 Nuclei detection template. A detection template checks whether a system is affected; it is not necessarily exploit code. Defenders should treat patch urgency accordingly.

  • Exploit-DBEDB-49908✓ verified
    Published May 26, 2021

    ProFTPd 1.3.5 - 'mod_copy' Remote Command Execution (2)

    Open source ↗
  • Exploit-DBEDB-37262✓ verified
    Published Jun 10, 2015

    ProFTPd 1.3.5 - 'mod_copy' Command Execution (Metasploit)

    Open source ↗
  • Metasploitexploit/unix/ftp/proftpd_modcopy_exec✓ verified
    Published Jun 9, 2015

    ProFTPD 1.3.5 Mod_Copy Command Execution

    Open source ↗
  • Exploit-DBEDB-36742✓ verified
    Published Apr 13, 2015

    ProFTPd 1.3.5 - File Copy

    Open source ↗
  • Nucleinetwork/cves/2015/CVE-2015-3306.yaml
    Published Mar 11, 2021

    ProFTPd - Remote Code Execution

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCt0kx/exploit-CVE-2015-3306
    Published Jan 8, 2017

    ProFTPd 1.3.5 - (mod_copy) Remote Command Execution exploit and vulnerable container

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCnootropics/propane
    Published Apr 26, 2015

    Exploits the arbitrary file write bug in proftpd (CVE-2015-3306) attempts code execution

    Open source ↗
  • Exploit-DBEDB-36803
    Published Apr 21, 2015

    ProFTPd 1.3.5 - 'mod_copy' Remote Command Execution

    Open source ↗

Frequently asked(6)

What is CVE-2015-3306?
CVE-2015-3306 is a critical-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on May 18, 2015. The mod_copy module in ProFTPD 1.3.5 allows remote attackers to read and write to arbitrary files via the site cpfr and site cpto commands.
When was CVE-2015-3306 made public?
CVE-2015-3306 was made public on April 7, 2015: that is the date its CVE record's CNA, MITRE Corporation, gives for when the vulnerability was made public. The CVE record itself was published on May 18, 2015. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of October 9, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2015-3306 actively exploited?
Yes. CISA added CVE-2015-3306 to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on October 8, 2026, affecting ProFTPD ProFTPD. KEV listing indicates confirmed exploitation in the wild; this CVE warrants immediate attention. A fix is available. Apply it.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2015-3306?
CVE-2015-3306 has a CVSS v3.1 base score of 10.0 (CISA-ADP / Vulnrichment enrichment; NVD's own analysis pending).
Which products are affected by CVE-2015-3306?
CVE-2015-3306 affects ProFTPD ProFTPD. The affected packages EchelonGraph has on record, with version ranges, are listed in the Affected Packages section of this page.
How do I remediate CVE-2015-3306?
A fix for CVE-2015-3306 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2015-3306 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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