giampaolo/pyftpdlib · Security
Improper Authentication in pyftpdlib
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-9x66-ghqx-8g5r
- CVE ID
- CVE-2007-6737
- Severity
- medium
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 7.3 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
- CVSS v3
- 7.3 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
- CVSS v4
- 6.9 · CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Description
FTPServer.py in pyftpdlib before 0.2.0 does not increment the attempted_logins count for a USER command that specifies an invalid username, which makes it easier for remote attackers to obtain access via a brute-force attack.
CWEs
- CWE-287 · Improper Authentication
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-6737 ↗
- https://github.com/giampaolo/pyftpdlib/issues/20 ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-9x66-ghqx-8g5r ↗
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/pyftpdlib/PYSEC-2010-21.yaml ↗
- http://code.google.com/p/pyftpdlib/issues/detail?id=20 ↗
- http://code.google.com/p/pyftpdlib/source/browse/trunk/HISTORY ↗
- http://code.google.com/p/pyftpdlib/source/detail?r=23 ↗
- http://code.google.com/p/pyftpdlib/source/diff?spec=svn23&r=23&format=side&path=/trunk/pyftpdlib/FTPServer.py ↗