CVE-2021-40491

medium

Description

The ftp client in GNU Inetutils before 2.2 does not validate addresses returned by PASV/LSPV responses to make sure they match the server address. This is similar to CVE-2020-8284 for curl.

References

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-inetutils/2021-06/msg00002.html

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/11/msg00033.html

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/inetutils.git/commit/?id=58cb043b190fd04effdaea7c9403416b436e50dd

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=993476

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2021-09-03

Updated: 2023-02-03

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N