What is CVE-2020-11705?

CVE-2020-11705 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Provideserver Provide FTP Server, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2020-04-12.

How severe is CVE-2020-11705?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.

Path Traversal in Provideserver Provide FTP Server

CVE-2020-11705

An issue was discovered in ProVide (formerly zFTPServer) through 13.1. /ajax/ImportCertificate allows an attacker to load an arbitrary certificate in .pfx format or overwrite arbitrary files via the fileName parameter.

Vulnerability class: Path Traversal (Directory Traversal)

EPSS: 0.009 (56.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Provideserver Provide_ftp_server
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-22 — Path Traversal

References

cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MISC, Vendor Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-11705?: CVE-2020-11705 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Provideserver Provide FTP Server, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2020-04-12.
How severe is CVE-2020-11705?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.