Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in ProFTPD - CVE-2019-12815

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Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in ProFTPD - CVE-2019-12815

Published: July 23, 2019 / Updated: February 26, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU19318
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 7.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-12815
CWE-ID: CWE-284
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to sensitive information.

The vulnerability exists due to the application does not honor <Limit READ> and <Limit WRITE> configurations for SITE CPFR and SITE CPTO commands in the mod_copy module. A remote authenticated user with read permissions (e.g. user anonymous) can read contents of an arbitrary file on the server.




Affected software

ProFTPD
Gentoo Linux
Fedora
Opensuse
SUSE Linux
proftpd-dfsg (Debian package)
proftpd
SIMATIC CP 1543-1

How to mitigate CVE-2019-12815

Install update from vendor's website.

ProFTPD - update to 1.3.6a
proftpd-dfsg (Debian package) - update to 1.3.6-4+deb10u1
SIMATIC CP 1543-1 - update to 2.2
proftpd - addressed in versions 1.3.5e-5.el7, 1.3.6-21.fc29, 1.3.6-21.fc30

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