vulnerability

FreeBSD: VID-6D334FDB-F7E7-11EA-88F8-901B0EF719AB (CVE-2020-7468): FreeBSD -- ftpd privilege escalation via ftpchroot feature

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Sep 15, 2020
Added
Sep 17, 2020
Modified
Apr 5, 2021

Description

Details for this vulnerability have not been published by NIST at this point. Descriptions from software vendor advisories for this issue are provided below.


From VID-6D334FDB-F7E7-11EA-88F8-901B0EF719AB:




Problem Description:


A ftpd(8) bug in the implementation of the file system sandbox, combined


with capabilities available to an authenticated FTP user, can be used to


escape the file system restriction configured in ftpchroot(5).


Moreover, the bug allows a malicious client to gain root privileges.


Impact:


A malicious FTP user can gain privileged access to an affected system.



Solution(s)

freebsd-upgrade-base-11_3-release-p14freebsd-upgrade-base-11_4-release-p4freebsd-upgrade-base-12_1-release-p10
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