CVE-2008-1668

Severity

99%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

165%

ftpd.c in (1) wu-ftpd 2.4.2 and (2) ftpd in HP HP-UX B.11.11 assigns uid 0 to the FTP client in certain operating-system misconfigurations in which PAM authentication can succeed even though no passwd entry is available for a user, which allows remote attackers to gain privileges, as demonstrated by a login attempt for an LDAP account when nsswitch.conf does not specify LDAP for passwd information.

ftpd.c in (1) wu-ftpd 2.4.2 and (2) ftpd in HP HP-UX B.11.11 assigns uid 0 to the FTP client in certain operating-system misconfigurations in which PAM authentication can succeed even though no passwd entry is available for a user, which allows remote attackers to gain privileges, as demonstrated by a login attempt for an LDAP account when nsswitch.conf does not specify LDAP for passwd information.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 9.9. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

First reported 16 years ago

2008-08-13 18:41:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-09-29 01:30:00

Affected Software

HP-UX 11.11

11.11

References

HPSBUX02356

31471

Vendor Advisory

[oss-security] 20080820 FW: CVE-2008-1668 - ftpd 2.4 - unauthorized root access - patch details

30666

1020682

ADV-2008-2364

Vendor Advisory

hpux-ftpd-security-bypass(44414)

oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5971

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