CVE-2008-4242

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 7.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-09-25 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-352

Description

ProFTPD 1.3.1 interprets long commands from an FTP client as multiple commands, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks and execute arbitrary FTP commands via a long ftp:// URI that leverages an existing session from the FTP client implementation in a web browser.

Affected products

ProFTPD Project Proftpd: 1.3.1

References

http://bugs.proftpd.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3115
http://secunia.com/advisories/31930
http://secunia.com/advisories/33261
http://secunia.com/advisories/33413
http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/56
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4313
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1689
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:061
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31289
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020945
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45274
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-January/msg00078.html

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