CVE-2012-3292

critical

Description

The GridFTP in Globus Toolkit (GT) before 5.2.2, when certain autoconf macros are defined, does not properly check the return value from the getpwnam_r function, which might allow remote attackers to gain privileges by logging in with a user that does not exist, which causes GridFTP to run as the last user in the password file.

References

http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2523

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/081797.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/081791.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/081787.html

http://jira.globus.org/browse/GT-195

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2012-06-07

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.6

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

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

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

Severity: Critical