CVE-2021-37533

Summary

CVECVE-2021-37533
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2022-12-03 15:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-01-10 19:29:00 UTC
DescriptionPrior to Apache Commons Net 3.9.0, Net's FTP client trusts the host from PASV response by default. A malicious server can redirect the Commons Net code to use a different host, but the user has to connect to the malicious server in the first place. This may lead to leakage of information about services running on the private network of the client. The default in version 3.9.0 is now false to ignore such hosts, as cURL does. See https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NET-711.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-20

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Apache Commons Net All All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 10.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 11.0 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
N/A CONFIRM lists.apache.org
oss-security - CVE-2021-37533: Apache Commons Net's FTP client trusts the host from PASV response by default MLIST www.openwall.com
[SECURITY] [DLA 3251-1] libcommons-net-java security update MLIST lists.debian.org
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-5307-1 libcommons-net-java DEBIAN 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

Discovery Credit

LEGACY: Apache Commons would like to thank ZeddYu Lu for reporting this issue.

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 181450 Debian Security Update for libcommons-net-java (DLA 3251-1)
  • 181451 Debian Security Update for libcommons-net-java (DSA 5307-1)
  • 181979 Debian Security Update for libcommons-net-java (CVE-2021-37533)
  • 199312 Ubuntu Security Notification for Apache Commons Net Vulnerability (USN-6037-1)
  • 378427 Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools Product Multiple Vulnerabilities (CPUAPR2023)
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