THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2020-9274
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2020-9274

Pure Ftpd vulnerability

CVSS
7.5
EPSS
6.0%
EPSS pct
93th
Exploited
No known
An issue was discovered in Pure-FTPd 1.0.49. An uninitialized pointer vulnerability has been detected in the diraliases linked list. When the *lookup_alias(const char alias) or print_aliases(void) function is called, they fail to correctly detect the end of the linked list and try to access a non-existent list member. This is related to init_aliases in diraliases.c.
Affected vendor
Pureftpd
Affected product
Pure Ftpd
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-824 — Access of Uninitialized Pointer
Published
2020-02-26

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality.

Its EPSS score of 6.0% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 93% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2020-9274

  • Confirm whether Pureftpd Pure Ftpd is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
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