Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jan 22, 2020· Updated Aug 4, 2024
Directory Traversal (Chroot Escape) vulnerability in uftpd
CVE-2020-5221
Description
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
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References
2- github.com/troglobit/uftpd/commit/455b47d3756aed162d2d0ef7f40b549f3b5b30femitrex_refsource_MISC
- github.com/troglobit/uftpd/security/advisories/GHSA-wmx8-v7mx-6x9hmitrex_refsource_CONFIRM
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