USN-7297-1

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    USN-7297-1

    Published: 25 Feb 2025Last Modified: 27 Apr 2026

    Summary: ProFTPD vulnerabilities

    Details: Fabian Bäumer, Marcus Brinkmann, and Jörg Schwenk discovered that the transport protocol implementation in ProFTPD had weak integrity checks. An attacker could use this vulnerability to bypass security features like encryption and integrity checks. (CVE-2023-48795) Martin Mirchev discovered that ProFTPD did not properly validate user input over the network. An attacker could use this vulnerability to crash ProFTPD or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2023-51713) Brian Ristuccia discovered that ProFTPD incorrectly inherited groups from the parent process. An attacker could use this vulnerability to elevate privileges. (CVE-2024-48651)

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: proftpd-dfsg

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=focal

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1.3.6c-2ubuntu0.1

    Affected versions

    1.3.6-6build2
    1.3.6c-1
    1.3.6c-2

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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