id: CVE-2020-9274 info: name: Pure-FTPd ≤ 1.0.49 - DoS via Uninitialized Pointer author: pussycat0x severity: high description: | Pure-FTPd versions ≤ 1.0.49 (>= ~0.96) contain a vulnerability in the init_aliases() function within diraliases.c when processing aliases. This leads to access of an uninitialized pointer, which can cause a denial of service (DoS) condition. impact: | Attackers can trigger denial of service by exploiting an uninitialized pointer in the init_aliases() function when processing FTP aliases, causing the Pure-FTPd daemon to crash and disrupting FTP services. remediation: | Upgrade to Pure-FTPd version 1.0.50 or later that fixes the uninitialized pointer vulnerability in the diraliases.c file. reference: - https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/02/msg00029.html - https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/22P44PECZWNDP7CMBL7NRBMNFS73C5Z2/ - https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/B5NSUDWXZVWUCL6R2PTX3KBB42Z62CA5/ - https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/U5DBVHJCXWRSJPNJQCJQCKZF6ZDPZCKA/ - https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-54 classification: cvss-metrics: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N cvss-score: 7.5 cve-id: CVE-2020-9274 cwe-id: CWE-824 epss-score: 0.05813 epss-percentile: 0.92197 cpe: cpe:2.3:a:pureftpd:pure-ftpd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* metadata: verified: true max-request: 1 vendor: pureftpd product: pure-ftpd shodan-query: - product:"pure-ftpd" version:"1.0.49" - cpe:"cpe:2.3:a:pureftpd:pure-ftpd" tags: cve,cve2020,network,ftp,pure-ftpd,tcp,passive,vuln tcp: - inputs: - data: 00000000 type: hex host: - "{{Hostname}}" port: 21 read-size: 1024 matchers: - type: dsl dsl: - "contains(raw, 'Pure-FTPd')" - "compare_versions(version, '<= 1.0.49')" condition: and extractors: - type: regex group: 1 name: version regex: - "Pure-FTPd ([0-9.]+)" # digest: 4a0a0047304502210096f1834eaba41a96f42cc84f11f7ff403024fac474f6bf02721c962fcfe2bc5802206ae7fecacb04f789d5cdd1d5e970616cd4c517e48f245f6225828ed94509d778:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e72950