CVE-2006-7094

Severity: high (CVSS 8.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-03-02 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

ftpd, as used by Gentoo and Debian Linux, sets the gid to the effective uid instead of the effective group id before executing /bin/ls, which allows remote authenticated users to list arbitrary directories with the privileges of gid 0 and possibly enable additional attack vectors.

Affected products

Ftpd: all versions

References

http://bugs.debian.org/384454
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=155317
http://osvdb.org/34242
http://packages.qa.debian.org/l/linux-ftpd/news/20061125T181702Z.html
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2330
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/460742/100/0/threaded
http://bugs.debian.org/384454
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=155317
http://osvdb.org/34242
http://packages.qa.debian.org/l/linux-ftpd/news/20061125T181702Z.html
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2330
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/460742/100/0/threaded

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