medium5.3
CVE-2018-10916
It has been discovered that lftp up to and including version 4.8.3 does not properly sanitize remote file names, leading to a loss of integrity on the local sy…
Impact
It has been discovered that lftp up to and including version 4.8.3 does not properly sanitize remote file names, leading to a loss of integrity on the local system when reverse mirroring is used. A remote attacker may trick a user to use reverse mirroring on an attacker controlled FTP server, resulting in the removal of all files in the current working directory of the victim's system.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Lftp Project | Lftp | through 4.8.3 |
| Canonical | Ubuntu Linux | Version 12.04 |
| Opensuse | Leap | Version 42.3 |
Weakness classification
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-03/msg00036.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00010.html
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-10916
- https://github.com/lavv17/lftp/commit/a27e07d90a4608ceaf928b1babb27d4d803e1992
- https://github.com/lavv17/lftp/issues/452
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3731-2/
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-03/msg00036.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00010.html
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-10916
- https://github.com/lavv17/lftp/commit/a27e07d90a4608ceaf928b1babb27d4d803e1992
- https://github.com/lavv17/lftp/issues/452
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3731-2/