High severity · published Apr 29, 2019
CVE-2019-5429
Untrusted search path in FileZilla before 3.41.0-rc1 allows an attacker to gain privileges via a malicious 'fzsftp' binary in the user's home directory
7.8
CVSS
2.8%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Untrusted search path in FileZilla before 3.41.0-rc1 allows an attacker to gain privileges via a malicious 'fzsftp' binary in the user's home directory.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)2.8% · higher than 87% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
9.0 · source: NVD
FE
Fedora · Fedoraproject
28 · source: NVD
FC
Filezilla Client · Filezilla-project
before 3.41.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-5429
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-5429
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/05/msg00037.html
lists.fedoraproject.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/R7WUJWTJA55ILACKLTJFSQUYEBHVYENL/
Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-51
Patch
https://svn.filezilla-project.org/filezilla?view=revision&revision=9112
Third Party Advisory
https://www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2019-14
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