ALAS-2020-1383

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2018-10916  

It has been discovered that lftp up to and including version 4.8.3 does not properly sanitize remote file names, leading to a loss of integrity on the local system when reverse mirroring is used. A remote attacker may trick a user to use reverse mirroring on an attacker controlled FTP server, resulting in the removal of all files in the current working directory of the victim's system. (CVE-2018-10916)

ALAS-2020-1383


Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory: ALAS-2020-1383
Advisory Release Date: 2020-06-23 06:03 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2020-06-26 04:47 Pacific
Severity: Medium
References: CVE-2018-10916 

Issue Overview:

It has been discovered that lftp up to and including version 4.8.3 does not properly sanitize remote file names, leading to a loss of integrity on the local system when reverse mirroring is used. A remote attacker may trick a user to use reverse mirroring on an attacker controlled FTP server, resulting in the removal of all files in the current working directory of the victim's system. (CVE-2018-10916)


Affected Packages:

lftp


Issue Correction:
Run yum update lftp to update your system.

New Packages:
i686:
    lftp-4.4.8-12.30.amzn1.i686
    lftp-debuginfo-4.4.8-12.30.amzn1.i686

noarch:
    lftp-scripts-4.4.8-12.30.amzn1.noarch

src:
    lftp-4.4.8-12.30.amzn1.src

x86_64:
    lftp-4.4.8-12.30.amzn1.x86_64
    lftp-debuginfo-4.4.8-12.30.amzn1.x86_64