Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity Affecting inetutils package, versions <2:2.0-1+deb11u1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.14% (50th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN11-INETUTILS-1582367
  • published3 Sept 2021
  • disclosed3 Sept 2021

Introduced: 3 Sep 2021

CVE-2021-40491  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-345  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:11 inetutils to version 2:2.0-1+deb11u1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream inetutils package and not the inetutils package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:11 relevant fixed versions and status.

The ftp client in GNU Inetutils before 2.2 does not validate addresses returned by PASV/LSPV responses to make sure they match the server address. This is similar to CVE-2020-8284 for curl.

CVSS Scores

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