CVE-2006-7094

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Summary

CVECVE-2006-7094
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2007-03-02 21:18:00 UTC
Updated2026-04-23 00:35:47 UTC
Descriptionftpd, as used by Gentoo and Debian Linux, sets the gid to the effective uid instead of the effective group id before executing /bin/ls, which allows remote authenticated users to list arbitrary directories with the privileges of gid 0 and possibly enable additional attack vectors.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 8.5 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

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

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Medium
Authentication
Single
Confidentiality
Complete
Integrity
Complete
Availability
Complete

AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 4.0 All All All
Application Ftpd Ftpd All All All All
Operating System Gentoo Linux All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

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

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Accepted linux-ftpd 0.17-23 (source i386) af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 packages.qa.debian.org
osvdb.org/34242 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 osvdb.org
SecurityFocus af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
CXSecurity - IDS af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 securityreason.com
#384454 - ftpd: Does not handle symlink? NFS? home directory - Debian Bug report logs af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugs.debian.org
155317 – net-ftp/ftpd 0.17-r4 always runs ls with gid 0? af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugs.gentoo.org Patch
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