CVE-2008-1668

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control

Publication date:

13/08/2008

Last modified:

09/04/2025

Description

ftpd.c in (1) wu-ftpd 2.4.2 and (2) ftpd in HP HP-UX B.11.11 assigns uid 0 to the FTP client in certain operating-system misconfigurations in which PAM authentication can succeed even though no passwd entry is available for a user, which allows remote attackers to gain privileges, as demonstrated by a login attempt for an LDAP account when nsswitch.conf does not specify LDAP for passwd information.

Impact

Vector 2.0

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 10.00 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Complete
Integrity (I): Complete
Availability (A): Complete