CVE-2011-3171

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Published 2011-11-04 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

3.6

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in pure-FTPd 1.0.22 and possibly other versions, when running on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and possibly other operating systems, when the Netware OES remote server feature is enabled, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via unknown vectors.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

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OS impact

SUSE Fixed 2 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
11	Not affected	—
10	Not affected	—

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
pureftpd	pure-ftpd	`{"endIncluding":"1.0.22"}`
pureftpd	pure-ftpd	`0.90`
pureftpd	pure-ftpd	`0.91`
pureftpd	pure-ftpd	`0.92`
pureftpd	pure-ftpd	`0.93`
pureftpd	pure-ftpd	`0.94`
pureftpd	pure-ftpd	`0.95`
pureftpd	pure-ftpd	`0.95.1`
pureftpd	pure-ftpd	`0.95.2`
pureftpd	pure-ftpd	`0.96`
pureftpd	pure-ftpd	`0.96.1`
pureftpd	pure-ftpd	`0.97`
pureftpd	pure-ftpd	`0.97-final`
pureftpd	pure-ftpd	`0.97.1`
pureftpd	pure-ftpd	`0.97.2`
pureftpd	pure-ftpd	`0.97.3`
pureftpd	pure-ftpd	`0.97.4`
pureftpd	pure-ftpd	`0.97.5`
pureftpd	pure-ftpd	`0.97.6`
pureftpd	pure-ftpd	`0.97.7`
pureftpd	pure-ftpd	`0.98`
pureftpd	pure-ftpd	`0.98.1`
pureftpd	pure-ftpd	`0.98.2`
pureftpd	pure-ftpd	`0.98.3`
pureftpd	pure-ftpd	`0.98.4`
pureftpd	pure-ftpd	`0.98.5`
pureftpd	pure-ftpd	`0.98.6`
pureftpd	pure-ftpd	`0.98.7`
pureftpd	pure-ftpd	`0.99`
pureftpd	pure-ftpd	`0.99.1`
pureftpd	pure-ftpd	`0.99.2`
pureftpd	pure-ftpd	`0.99.3`
pureftpd	pure-ftpd	`0.99.4`
pureftpd	pure-ftpd	`0.99.9`
pureftpd	pure-ftpd	`1.0.0`
pureftpd	pure-ftpd	`1.0.1`
pureftpd	pure-ftpd	`1.0.2`
pureftpd	pure-ftpd	`1.0.3`
pureftpd	pure-ftpd	`1.0.4`
pureftpd	pure-ftpd	`1.0.5`
pureftpd	pure-ftpd	`1.0.6`
pureftpd	pure-ftpd	`1.0.7`
pureftpd	pure-ftpd	`1.0.8`
pureftpd	pure-ftpd	`1.0.9`
pureftpd	pure-ftpd	`1.0.10`
pureftpd	pure-ftpd	`1.0.11`
pureftpd	pure-ftpd	`1.0.12`
pureftpd	pure-ftpd	`1.0.13`
pureftpd	pure-ftpd	`1.0.14`
pureftpd	pure-ftpd	`1.0.15`
pureftpd	pure-ftpd	`1.0.16`
pureftpd	pure-ftpd	`1.0.17`
pureftpd	pure-ftpd	`1.0.18`
pureftpd	pure-ftpd	`1.0.19`
pureftpd	pure-ftpd	`1.0.20`
pureftpd	pure-ftpd	`1.0.21`

References

CWEs

CWE-22

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