CVE-1999-0997

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Summary

CVECVE-1999-0997
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published1999-12-20 05:00:00 UTC
Updated2025-04-03 01:03:51 UTC
Descriptionwu-ftp with FTP conversion enabled allows an attacker to execute commands via a malformed file name that is interpreted as an argument to the program that does the conversion, e.g. tar or uncompress.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 7.5 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Partial
Integrity
Partial
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Millenux Gmbh Anonftp 2.8.1 All All All
Operating System Redhat Linux 5.2 All All All
Operating System Redhat Linux 6.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Linux 6.1 All All All
Application University Of Washington Wu-ftpd 2.4.2 All All All
Application University Of Washington Wu-ftpd 2.5.0 All All All
Application University Of Washington Wu-ftpd 2.6.0 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-377-1 wu-ftpd af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

OrganizationPublishedContributorStatement
Red Hat2006-09-27Joshua BressersRed Hat does not consider CVE-1999-0997 to be a security vulnerability. The wu-ftpd process chroots itself into the target ftp directory and will only run external commands as the user logged into the ftp server. Because the process chroots itself, an attacker needs a valid login with write access to the ftp server, and even then they could only potentially execute commands as themselves.

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