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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.100933
Category:Gain a shell remotely
Title:ProFTPD Backdoor Unauthorized Access Vulnerability
Summary:ProFTPD is prone to an unauthorized-access vulnerability due to a; backdoor in certain versions of the application.
Description:Summary:
ProFTPD is prone to an unauthorized-access vulnerability due to a
backdoor in certain versions of the application.

Vulnerability Impact:
Exploiting this issue allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary
system commands with superuser privileges.

Affected Software/OS:
The issue affects the ProFTPD 1.3.3c package downloaded between
November 28 and December 2, 2010.

The MD5 sums of the unaffected ProFTPD 1.3.3c source packages are
as follows:

8571bd78874b557e98480ed48e2df1d2 proftpd-1.3.3c.tar.bz2
4f2c554d6273b8145095837913ba9e5d proftpd-1.3.3c.tar.gz

Files with MD5 sums other than those listed above should be
considered affected.

Solution:
The vendor released an advisory to address the issue. Please see the
references for more information.

CVSS Score:
10.0

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CopyrightCopyright (C) 2010 Greenbone Networks GmbH

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