A malicious backdoor was embedded in the official ProFTPD 1.3.3c source tarball distributed between November 28 and December 2, 2010. The backdoor implements a hidden FTP command trigger that, when i…
Critical CVSS 9.8
Summary
A malicious backdoor was embedded in the official ProFTPD 1.3.3c source tarball distributed between November 28 and December 2, 2010. The backdoor implements a hidden FTP command trigger that, when invoked, causes the server to execute arbitrary shell commands with root privileges. This allows remote, unauthenticated attackers to run any OS command on the FTP server host.
In-depth triage · Auto channel
No in-depth report has been generated yet (DR-003 v2 AI pipeline is under construction).
Affected products
- :
Lint boundary warnings (1)
The following non-blocking warnings were raised during the lint phase of this triage (e.g. reference URLs not yet on the allowlist). They do not affect entry usability and are disclosed for transparency (see DR-002).
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REF_URL_NOT_ALLOWLISTEDurl not in allowlist: http://www.proftpd.org/
Sources
- NVD DATABASE
Original Links
- http://www.proftpd.org/ Product
- https://advisories.checkpoint.com/defense/advisories/public/2011/cpai-2010-151.html/ Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/proftpd/proftpd Product
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/master/modules/exploits/unix/ftp/proftpd_133c_backdoor.rb Exploit
- https://web.archive.org/web/20111107212129/http://rsync.proftpd.org/ Release Notes
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/15662 Exploit
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/16921 Exploit
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/proftpd-backdoor-command-execution Third Party Advisory
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/master/modules/exploits/unix/ftp/proftpd_133c_backdoor.rb Exploit
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/15662 Exploit
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/16921 Exploit
Timeline
- nvd_ingest NVD