CVE-2007-2165

published 2007-04-22

CVE-2007-2165: The Auth API in ProFTPD before 20070417, when multiple simultaneous authentication modules are configured, does not require that the module that checks…

Priority P3 39 medium 5.1 CVSS 2.0

AV N AC H Au N C P I P A P

The Auth API in ProFTPD before 20070417, when multiple simultaneous authentication modules are configured, does not require that the module that checks authentication is the same as the module that retrieves authentication data, which might allow remote attackers to bypass authentication, as demonstrated by use of SQLAuthTypes Plaintext in mod_sql, with data retrieved from /etc/passwd.

Affected

2 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	proftpd-dfsg	< proftpd-dfsg 1.3.0-24 (bookworm)	proftpd-dfsg 1.3.0-24 (bookworm)
proftpd_project	proftpd	<= 1.3.0_rc1	—

CVSS provenance

nvd v2.0 5.1 MEDIUM AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

osv 5.1 MEDIUM

vendor_debian 5.1 LOW

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