CVEvulnerability

CVE-1999-1475

4.6 MEDIUM Published 1999-11-19 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
1999-11-19
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

ProFTPd 1.2 compiled with the mod_sqlpw module records user passwords in the wtmp log file, which allows local users to obtain the passwords and gain privileges by reading wtmp, e.g. via the last command.

Affected configurations

• proftpd project proftpd 1.2

References