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pyftpdlib vulnerable to allocation of resources without limits

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published May 1, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 29, 2023

Package

pip pyftpdlib (pip)

Affected versions

< 0.2.0

Patched versions

0.2.0

Description

The ftp_STOU function in FTPServer.py in pyftpdlib before 0.2.0 does not limit the number of attempts to discover a unique filename, which might allow remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service via a STOU command.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Oct 19, 2010
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 1, 2022
Reviewed Jun 8, 2022
Last updated Jan 29, 2023

Severity

Moderate
4.3
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Low
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2007-6740

GHSA ID

GHSA-cx59-cp6c-9fr8

Source code

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