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Fedora 20 : proftpd-1.3.4e-3.fc20 (2015-6401)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 83198

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Vadim Melihow reported a critical issue with proftpd installations that use the mod_copy module's SITE CPFR/SITE CPTO commands; mod_copy allows these commands to be used by *unauthenticated clients*

Upstream report: http://bugs.proftpd.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4169

This update contains a backported fix for this issue.

Note that mod_copy is not loaded/enabled by default in the Fedora package.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected proftpd package.

See Also

http://bugs.proftpd.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4169

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1212386

http://www.nessus.org/u?3fb4bf19

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 83198

File Name: fedora_2015-6401.nasl

Version: 2.8

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/4/2015

Updated: 10/8/2026

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.3

Percentile: 99.82

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 8.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-3306

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 9.3

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:20, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:proftpd

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/18/2015

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 10/11/2026

Exploitable With

CANVAS (CANVAS)

Metasploit (ProFTPD 1.3.5 Mod_Copy Command Execution)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-3306

FEDORA: 2015-6401