Vulnerability in HP Hp-Ux

CVE-2008-1668

ftpd.c in (1) wu-ftpd 2.4.2 and (2) ftpd in HP HP-UX B.11.11 assigns uid 0 to the FTP client in certain operating-system misconfigurations in which PAM authentication can succeed even though no passwd entry is available for a user, which allows remote attackers to gain privileges, as demonstrated by a login attempt for an LDAP account when nsswitch.conf does not specify LDAP for passwd information.

EPSS: 0.045 (90.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Hp Hp-ux — versions 11.11
  • N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

References