giampaolo/pyftpdlib · Security
Improper Authentication in pyftpdlib
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-q6w2-jxcm-2crj
- CVE ID
- CVE-2008-7263
- 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 0.5.0 does not delay its response after receiving an invalid login attempt, 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-2008-7263 ↗
- https://github.com/giampaolo/pyftpdlib/issues/73 ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-q6w2-jxcm-2crj ↗
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/pyftpdlib/PYSEC-2010-5.yaml ↗
- http://code.google.com/p/pyftpdlib/issues/detail?id=73 ↗
- http://code.google.com/p/pyftpdlib/source/browse/trunk/HISTORY ↗
- http://code.google.com/p/pyftpdlib/source/detail?r=348 ↗
- http://code.google.com/p/pyftpdlib/source/diff?spec=svn348&r=348&format=side&path=/trunk/pyftpdlib/ftpserver.py ↗