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CVE-2012-0315

Status: ModifiedHigh (9.3)—

Untrusted search path vulnerability in ALFTP before 5.31 allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse executable file in a directory that is accessed for reading an extensionless file, as demonstrated by executing the README.exe file when a user attempts to access the README file.

CVSS

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

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Affected technologies (1)

Estsoft — Alftp

CWEs

References

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