CVEvulnerability

CVE-2006-5778

4.6 MEDIUM Published 2006-11-07 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2006-11-07
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

ftpd in linux-ftpd 0.17, and possibly other versions, performs a chdir before setting the UID, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions by redirecting their home directory to a restricted directory.

Affected configurations

• linux-ftpd-ssl linux-ftpd-ssl 0.17

References