Directory Traversal Affecting pureftpd package, versions [,1.0.24)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.03% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-PUREFTPD-2371145
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed4 Nov 2011
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 4 Nov 2011

CVE-2011-3171  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-22  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade pureftpd to version 1.0.24 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Directory Traversal. Directory traversal vulnerability in pure-FTPd 1.0.22 and possibly other versions, when running on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and possibly other operating systems, when the Netware OES remote server feature is enabled, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via unknown vectors.

CVSS Base Scores

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