Executive Summary



This Alert is flagged as TOP 25 Common Weakness Enumeration from CWE/SANS. For more information, you can read this.
Informations
Name CVE-2008-4242 First vendor Publication 2008-09-25
Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2017-08-08

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 6.8 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

ProFTPD 1.3.1 interprets long commands from an FTP client as multiple commands, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks and execute arbitrary FTP commands via a long ftp:// URI that leverages an existing session from the FTP client implementation in a web browser.

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-4242

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-352 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) (CWE/SANS Top 25)

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:20068
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:20068
Title: DSA-1689-1 proftpd-dfsg - Cross-Site Request Forgery
Description: Maksymilian Arciemowicz of securityreason.com reported that ProFTPD is vulnerable to cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks and executes arbitrary FTP commands via a long ftp:// URI that leverages an existing session from the FTP client implementation in a web browser.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): DSA-1689-1
CVE-2008-4242
 Version: 5
Platform(s): Debian GNU/Linux 4.0
 Product(s): proftpd-dfsg
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:7948
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:7948
Title: DSA-1689 proftpd-dfsg -- missing input validation
Description: Maksymilian Arciemowicz of securityreason.com reported that ProFTPD is vulnerable to cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks and executes arbitrary FTP commands via a long ftp:// URI that leverages an existing session from the FTP client implementation in a web browser.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): DSA-1689
CVE-2008-4242
 Version: 3
Platform(s): Debian GNU/Linux 4.0
 Product(s): proftpd-dfsg
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 1

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2009-06-05 Name : Ubuntu USN-698-1 (nagios)
File : nvt/ubuntu_698_1.nasl
2009-01-07 Name : Fedora Core 9 FEDORA-2009-0064 (proftpd)
File : nvt/fcore_2009_0064.nasl
2009-01-07 Name : Fedora Core 10 FEDORA-2009-0089 (proftpd)
File : nvt/fcore_2009_0089.nasl
2009-01-07 Name : Fedora Core 8 FEDORA-2009-0195 (proftpd)
File : nvt/fcore_2009_0195.nasl
2008-12-29 Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 1689-1 (proftpd-dfsg)
File : nvt/deb_1689_1.nasl
2008-12-29 Name : Ubuntu USN-697-1 (imlib2)
File : nvt/ubuntu_697_1.nasl
2008-12-29 Name : Ubuntu USN-698-2 (nagios3)
File : nvt/ubuntu_698_2.nasl
2008-12-29 Name : Ubuntu USN-699-1 (blender)
File : nvt/ubuntu_699_1.nasl
2008-09-26 Name : ProFTPD Long Command Handling Security Vulnerability
File : nvt/secpod_proftpd_cmd_handling_sec_vuln_900133.nasl
2008-09-24 Name : FreeBSD Ports: proftpd, proftpd-mysql
File : nvt/freebsd_proftpd4.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
48411 ProFTPD FTP Command Truncation CSRF

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2009-04-23 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2009-0089.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-04-23 Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : mandriva_MDVSA-2009-061.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-01-16 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2009-0064.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-01-16 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2009-0195.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-12-22 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-1689.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-09-23 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.
File : freebsd_pkg_0f51f2c9895611dda6fe0030843d3802.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-09-23 Name : The remote FTP server is prone to a cross-site request forgery attack.
File : proftpd_cmd_truncation_csrf.nasl - Type : ACT_ATTACK

Sources (Detail)

Source Url
BID http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31289
CONFIRM http://bugs.proftpd.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3115
DEBIAN http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1689
FEDORA https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-January/msg00078...
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-January/msg00245...
MANDRIVA http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:061
SECTRACK http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020945
SECUNIA http://secunia.com/advisories/31930
http://secunia.com/advisories/33261
http://secunia.com/advisories/33413
SREASON http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4313
SREASONRES http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/56
XF https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45274

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