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CVE-2012-6095

• Severity: low (CVSS 1.2 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2013-01-24 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-362

Description

ProFTPD before 1.3.5rc1, when using the UserOwner directive, allows local users to modify the ownership of arbitrary files via a race condition and a symlink attack on the (1) MKD or (2) XMKD commands.

Affected products

• ProFTPD: through 1.3.4; 1.2.0, 1.2.0-pre10, 1.2.0-pre9, 1.2.0-rc1, 1.2.0-rc2, 1.2.0-rc3 (+61)

References

• http://bugs.proftpd.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3841
• http://proftpd.org/docs/NEWS-1.3.5rc1
• http://secunia.com/advisories/51823
• http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2606
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/01/07/3
• http://bugs.proftpd.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3841
• http://proftpd.org/docs/NEWS-1.3.5rc1
• http://secunia.com/advisories/51823
• http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2606
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/01/07/3

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