CVEvulnerability
CVE-2021-40491
6.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2021-09-03
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-345
Description
The ftp client in GNU Inetutils before 2.2 does not validate addresses returned by PASV/LSPV responses to make sure they match the server address. This is similar to CVE-2020-8284 for curl.
Affected configurations
• gnu inetutils (< 2.2)
• debian debian linux 10.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-345 Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity weakness
References
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=993476 Third Party Advisory
- https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/inetutils.git/commit/?id=58cb043b190fd04effdaea7c9403416b436e50dd Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/11/msg00033.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-inetutils/2021-06/msg00002.html Mailing List, Vendor Advisory
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=993476 Third Party Advisory
- https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/inetutils.git/commit/?id=58cb043b190fd04effdaea7c9403416b436e50dd Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/11/msg00033.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-inetutils/2021-06/msg00002.html Mailing List, Vendor Advisory