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Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-2348

Original release date:04/27/2007

Last revised:09/05/2008

Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

mirror --script in lftp before 3.5.9 does not properly quote shell metacharacters, which might allow remote user-assisted attackers to execute shell commands via a malicious script. NOTE: it is not clear whether this issue crosses security boundaries, since the script already supports commands such as "get" which could overwrite executable files.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS v2 Base Score:6.8 (MEDIUM) (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P) (legend)

Impact Subscore: 6.4

Exploitability Subscore: 8.6

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism

Access Complexity: Medium

Authentication: Not required to exploit

Impact Type:Provides user account access, Allows partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service

Vendor Statments (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (04/30/2007): Red Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=236238 The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security impact, a future update may address this flaw. More information regarding issue severity can be found here: http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://lftp.yar.ru/news.html

Hyperlink:http://lftp.yar.ru/news.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=173524

Hyperlink:http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=173524

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1229

Hyperlink:https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1229

External Source: BID

Name: 23736

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23736