CVE-2018-10916 Information

Description

It has been discovered that lftp up to and including version 4.8.3 does not properly sanitize remote file names leading to a loss of integrity on the local system when reverse mirroring is used. A remote attacker may trick a user to use reverse mirroring on an attacker controlled FTP server resulting in the removal of all files in the current working directory of the victim’s system.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Reference

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-03/msg00036.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00010.html https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-10916 https://github.com/lavv17/lftp/commit/a27e07d90a4608ceaf928b1babb27d4d803e1992 https://github.com/lavv17/lftp/issues/452 https://usn.ubuntu.com/3731-2/

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

NONE

Base Severity

6.5