Vulnerability · Published Jan 21, 2023 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2023-24042
High 7.5
In plain English
A high-severity race condition in the affected software. Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.5% (higher than 45% of all known vulnerabilities).
Severity (CVSS 3.1)7.5High
Exploit odds (30 days)0.5%top 55.0% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: poc
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known
Official description
A race condition in LightFTP through 2.2 allows an attacker to achieve path traversal via a malformed FTP request. A handler thread can use an overwritten context->FileName.
Affected products (as reported)
Weakness: CWE-362 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H