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CVE-2019-5429

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2019-04-29 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-426

Description

Untrusted search path in FileZilla before 3.41.0-rc1 allows an attacker to gain privileges via a malicious 'fzsftp' binary in the user's home directory.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 9.0
• Fedoraproject Fedora: 28
• Filezilla-Project FileZilla: before 3.41.0 — fixed in 3.41.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Filezilla-Project FileZilla 3.41.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/05/msg00037.html
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/R7WUJWTJA55ILACKLTJFSQUYEBHVYENL/
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-51
• https://svn.filezilla-project.org/filezilla?view=revision&revision=9112
• https://www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2019-14
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/05/msg00037.html
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/R7WUJWTJA55ILACKLTJFSQUYEBHVYENL/
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-51
• https://svn.filezilla-project.org/filezilla?view=revision&revision=9112
• https://www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2019-14

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