Vulnerability CVE-2018-10916


Published: 2018-08-01

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.

Type:

CWE-20

(Improper Input Validation)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:C)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.8/10
7.8/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
Partial
Complete
Affected software
Opensuse -> LEAP 
Lftp project -> LFTP 
Canonical -> Ubuntu linux 

 References:
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/

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