CVE-2020-5221 (GCVE-0-2020-5221)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-01-22 18:50 – Updated: 2024-08-04 08:22
VLAI
Title
Directory Traversal (Chroot Escape) vulnerability in uftpd
Summary
In uftpd before 2.11, it is possible for an unauthenticated user to perform a directory traversal attack using multiple different FTP commands and read and write to arbitrary locations on the filesystem due to the lack of a well-written chroot jail in compose_abspath(). This has been fixed in version 2.11
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
CWE
  • CWE-22 - Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
troglobit uftpd Affected: < 2.11
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