CVEvulnerability

CVE-2001-0456

7.5 HIGH Published 2001-06-27 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2001-06-27
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

postinst installation script for Proftpd in Debian 2.2 does not properly change the "run as uid/gid root" configuration when the user enables anonymous access, which causes the server to run at a higher privilege than intended.

Affected configurations

• debian debian linux 2.2

References