Access Restriction Bypass Affecting pyftpdlib package, versions [,0.5.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.17% (56th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-PYFTPDLIB-42144
  • published4 Jun 2018
  • disclosed21 Apr 2009
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 21 Apr 2009

CVE-2009-5012  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade pyftpdlib to version 0.5.2 or higher.

Overview

pyftpdlib is a FTP server library.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass. It does not require the l permission for the MLST command, which allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended access restrictions and list the root directory via an FTP session.

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