VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-3125

high
Published 2016-04-05 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
7.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.5

Description

The mod_tls module in ProFTPD before 1.3.5b and 1.3.6 before 1.3.6rc2 does not properly handle the TLSDHParamFile directive, which might cause a weaker than intended Diffie-Hellman (DH) key to be used and consequently allow attackers to have unspecified impact via unknown vectors.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
83%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact
fedora Fedora Affected 2 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
23 Affected —
22 Affected —
suse SUSE Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
13.1 Affected —
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 1.3.5b-1
sid Fixed 1.3.5b-1
forky Fixed 1.3.5b-1
bullseye Fixed 1.3.5b-1
bookworm Fixed 1.3.5b-1

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
proftpdproftpd{"endIncluding":"1.3.5"}
proftpdproftpd1.3.6

References

CWEs

CWE-254 CWE-310

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.