giampaolo/pyftpdlib · Security
pyftpdlib vulnerable to allocation of resources without limits
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-cx59-cp6c-9fr8
- CVE ID
- CVE-2007-6740
- Severity
- high
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 6.5 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS v3
- 6.5 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS v4
- 7.1 · CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
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.
CWEs
- CWE-770 · Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-6740 ↗
- https://github.com/giampaolo/pyftpdlib/issues/25 ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-cx59-cp6c-9fr8 ↗
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/pyftpdlib/PYSEC-2010-24.yaml ↗
- http://code.google.com/p/pyftpdlib/issues/detail?id=25 ↗
- http://code.google.com/p/pyftpdlib/source/browse/trunk/HISTORY ↗
- http://code.google.com/p/pyftpdlib/source/detail?r=37 ↗
- http://code.google.com/p/pyftpdlib/source/diff?spec=svn37&r=37&format=side&path=/trunk/pyftpdlib/FTPServer.py ↗