CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2017-15272

Improper Authentication

Published: Nov 15, 2017 | Modified: Oct 03, 2019
CVSS 3.x
5.3
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CVSS 2.x
2.1 LOW
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

The PSFTPd 10.0.4 Build 729 server stores its configuration inside PSFTPd.dat. This file is a Microsoft Access Database and can be extracted. The application sets the encrypt flag with the password ITsILLEGAL; however, this password is not required to extract the data. Cleartext is used for a user password.

Weakness

When an actor claims to have a given identity, the product does not prove or insufficiently proves that the claim is correct.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Psftpd Psftp 10.0.4 (including) 10.0.4 (including)

Potential Mitigations

References