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Apache Commons Net vulnerable to information leakage via malicious server

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Dec 3, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Feb 2, 2023

Package

maven commons-net:commons-net (Maven)

Affected versions

< 3.9.0

Patched versions

3.9.0

Description

Prior to Apache Commons Net 3.9.0, Net's FTP client trusts the host from PASV response by default. A malicious server can redirect the Commons Net code to use a different host, but the user has to connect to the malicious server in the first place. This may lead to leakage of information about services running on the private network of the client.
The default in version 3.9.0 is now false to ignore such hosts, as cURL does. See https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NET-711.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Dec 3, 2022
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Dec 3, 2022
Reviewed Dec 5, 2022
Last updated Feb 2, 2023

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

EPSS score

0.253%
(66th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2021-37533

GHSA ID

GHSA-cgp8-4m63-fhh5

Source code

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