6.5
CVSSv2

CVE-2011-1526

Published: 11/07/2011 Updated: 02/02/2021
CVSS v2 Base Score: 6.5 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 8
VMScore: 578
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

ftpd.c in the GSS-API FTP daemon in MIT Kerberos Version 5 Applications (aka krb5-appl) 1.0.1 and previous versions does not check the krb5_setegid return value, which allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended group access restrictions, and create, overwrite, delete, or read files, via standard FTP commands, related to missing autoconf tests in a configure script.

Vulnerability Trend

Vulnerable Product Search on Vulmon Subscribe to Product

mit krb5-appl

debian debian linux 5.0

debian debian linux 6.0

fedoraproject fedora 14

fedoraproject fedora 15

opensuse opensuse 11.3

opensuse opensuse 11.4

suse linux enterprise desktop 10

suse linux enterprise desktop 11

suse linux enterprise server 10

suse linux enterprise server 11

suse linux enterprise software development kit 10

suse linux enterprise software development kit 11

Vendor Advisories

Synopsis Low: krb5 security and bug fix update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Low Topic Updated krb5 packages that fix one security issue and various bugs are nowavailable for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having lowsecurity impact A Common Vulnera ...
Debian Bug report logs - #654231 CVE-2011-4862 Package: krb5-telnetd; Maintainer for krb5-telnetd is (unknown); Reported by: Moritz Muehlenhoff <muehlenhoff@univentionde> Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2012 13:48:15 UTC Severity: critical Tags: security Found in version krb5-appl/1:10~alpha1-1 Fixed in versions krb5-appl/1:101-12 ...
Tim Zingelmann discovered that due an incorrect configure script the kerborised FTP server failed to set the effective GID correctly, resulting in privilege escalation The oldstable distribution (lenny) is not affected For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 101-11 For the unstable distribution (sid), thi ...