CVE-2005-0372

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-05-02 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in gftp before 2.0.18 for GTK+ allows remote malicious FTP servers to read arbitrary files via .. (dot dot) sequences in filenames returned from a LIST command.

Affected products

GNOME Gtk: before 2.0.18 — fixed in 2.0.18

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: GNOME Gtk 2.0.18. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000957
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-686
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200502-27.xml
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:050
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-410.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/advisories/8379
http://www.securityfocus.com/advisories/8380
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12539
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A717
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9923
http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000957
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-686

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