CVE-2019-5429 (GCVE-0-2019-5429)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-04-29 14:13 – Updated: 2024-08-04 19:54
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
Untrusted search path in FileZilla before 3.41.0-rc1 allows an attacker to gain privileges via a malicious 'fzsftp' binary in the user's home directory.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CWE
- CWE-426 - Untrusted Search Path (CWE-426)
Assigner
References
5 references
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| https://www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2019-14 | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://svn.filezilla-project.org/filezilla?view=… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac… | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA |
| https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-51 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO |
| https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022… | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
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