Security Advisory

CVE-2008-1668

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2008-08-13 18:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-07 08:32:01

Assigner mitre

State PUBLISHED

Description

ftpd.c in (1) wu-ftpd 2.4.2 and (2) ftpd in HP HP-UX B.11.11 assigns uid 0 to the FTP client in certain operating-system misconfigurations in which PAM authentication can succeed even though no passwd entry is available for a user, which allows remote attackers to gain privileges, as demonstrated by a login attempt for an LDAP account when nsswitch.conf does not specify LDAP for passwd information.

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