CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-1668
10.0 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-08-13
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 10.0 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Description
ftpd.c in (1) wu-ftpd 2.4.2 and (2) ftpd in HP HP-UX B.11.11 assigns uid 0 to the FTP client in certain operating-system misconfigurations in which PAM authentication can succeed even though no passwd entry is available for a user, which allows remote attackers to gain privileges, as demonstrated by a login attempt for an LDAP account when nsswitch.conf does not specify LDAP for passwd information.
Affected configurations
• hp hp-ux 11.11
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c01525562 h20000.www2.hp.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31471 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/08/20/4 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30666 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020682 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2364 Vendor Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44414 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5971 oval.cisecurity.org
- http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c01525562 h20000.www2.hp.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31471 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/08/20/4 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30666 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020682 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2364 Vendor Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44414 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5971 oval.cisecurity.org