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ProFTP ProFTPd: CVE-2024-48651: Incorrect Authorization

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N)
Published
Nov 29, 2024
Added
Nov 6, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

In ProFTPD through 1.3.8b before cec01cc, supplemental group inheritance grants unintended access to GID 0 because of the lack of supplemental groups from mod_sql.

Solution

proftp-proftpd-upgrade-latest
Title
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