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pyftpdlib Use of Insufficiently Random Values of port selection on PASV command

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published May 1, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Apr 29, 2024

Package

pip pyftpdlib (pip)

Affected versions

< 0.1.1

Patched versions

0.1.1

Description

pyftpdlib before 0.1.1 does not choose a random value for the port associated with the PASV command, which makes it easier for remote attackers to obtain potentially sensitive information about the number of in-progress data connections by reading the response to this command.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Oct 19, 2010
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 1, 2022
Reviewed Apr 29, 2024
Last updated Apr 29, 2024

Severity

Moderate

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2007-6738

GHSA ID

GHSA-gh7c-cg3x-pmcr

Source code

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