Medium severity6.5NVD Advisory· Published Jan 22, 2020· Updated Jun 17, 2026

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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Affected products

Troglobit/uftpd3 versions
cpe:2.3:a:troglobit:uftpd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 2 more
- cpe:2.3:a:troglobit:uftpd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <2.11
- (no CPE)range: <2.11
- (no CPE)range: < 2.11

Patches

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References

github.com/troglobit/uftpd/commit/455b47d3756aed162d2d0ef7f40b549f3b5b30fenvdPatchThird Party Advisory
github.com/troglobit/uftpd/security/advisories/GHSA-wmx8-v7mx-6x9hnvdExploitThird Party Advisory

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