Vulnerability in Sun Solaris
CVE-2001-0421
FTP server in Solaris 8 and earlier allows local and remote attackers to cause a core dump in the root directory, possibly with world-readable permissions, by providing a valid username with an invalid password followed by a CWD ~ command, which could release sensitive information such as shadowed passwords, or fill the disk partition.
EPSS: 0.062 (92.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Sun Solaris — versions 2.6
- Sun Sunos
- N/a — versions n/a
References
- cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)
- cve@mitre.org (Exploit, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, Vendor Advisory)