Title : CuteFTP Directory Download Remote Directory Traversal Vulnerability VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2008-1653 CVE ID : CVE-2008-2779
Rated as : Moderate Risk
Remotely Exploitable : Yes Locally Exploitable : Yes Release Date : 2008-05-27
Technical Description
A vulnerability has been identified in CuteFTP, which could be exploited by attackers to compromise a vulnerable system. This issue is caused by input validation errors when processing FTP responses the "LIST" command, which could be exploited by attackers to write arbitrary files on a vulnerable system by tricking a user into downloading a directory containing files with specially crafted filenames from a malicious FTP server.
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