9 High
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
SINGLE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
0.134 Low
EPSS
Percentile
95.6%
The remote host is running a version of ProFTPD which seems to be vulnerable to a buffer overflow when a user downloads a malformed ASCII file.
An attacker with upload privileges on this host may abuse this flaw to gain a root shell on this host.
*** The author of ProFTPD did not increase the version number*** of his product when fixing this issue, so it might be false
*** positive.
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
include("compat.inc");
if(description)
{
script_id(11849);
script_version("1.17");
script_cvs_date("Date: 2018/07/25 18:58:04");
script_cve_id("CVE-2003-0831");
script_bugtraq_id(8679);
script_name(english:"ProFTPD File Transfer Newline Character Overflow");
script_summary(english:"Checks the remote ProFTPD version");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"Arbitrary code may be run on the remote server.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The remote host is running a version of ProFTPD which seems to be
vulnerable to a buffer overflow when a user downloads a malformed ASCII
file.
An attacker with upload privileges on this host may abuse this flaw to
gain a root shell on this host.
*** The author of ProFTPD did not increase the version number
*** of his product when fixing this issue, so it might be false
*** positive.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Upgrade to ProFTPD 1.2.9 when available or to 1.2.8p");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");
script_cwe_id(119);
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2003/09/23");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2003/09/23");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"remote");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/a:proftpd:proftpd");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family(english:"FTP");
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2003-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
script_dependencie("ftpserver_detect_type_nd_version.nasl");
script_require_keys("ftp/proftpd");
script_require_ports("Services/ftp", 21);
exit(0);
}
include("ftp_func.inc");
#
# The script code starts here :
#
port = get_ftp_port(default: 21);
banner = get_ftp_banner(port:port);
if (!banner) exit(1);
if(egrep(pattern:"^220 ProFTPD 1\.([01]\..*|2\.[0-6][^0-9]|2\.[7-8][^0-9]|2\.9rc[0-2])", string:banner))
security_hole(port);