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ProFTPD Username Variable Substitution SQL Injection

high Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 4930

Synopsis

The remote host is vulnerable to a SQL Injection attack.

Description

The remote host is using ProFTPD, a free FTP server for Unix and Linux. The version of ProFTPD running on the remote host allows the percent character, '%', within the username. This would allow attackers to inject special SQL characters such as a single quote. An attacker exploiting this flaw would be able to execute arbitrary SQL commands against the database server.

Solution

Upgrade to version 1.3.2rc3 or higher.

See Also

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/500823/30/0/threaded

http://bugs.proftpd.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3124

http://www.proftpd.org/docs/RELEASE_NOTES-1.3.2rc3

http://www.proftpd.org/docs/NEWS-1.3.2rc3

http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.oss.general/1489

http://bugs.proftpd.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3180

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 4930

Family: FTP Servers

Published: 2/13/2009

Updated: 3/6/2019

Nessus ID: 35690

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.2

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.3

Temporal Score: 6.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:proftpd_project:proftpd

Exploitable With

CANVAS (D2ExploitPack)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-0542

BID: 33722