CVE-2008-4242
EPSS 3.4%proftpd-dfsg - Cross-Site Request Forgery
Published: 9/25/2008Modified: 4/28/2026
Also known as:DEBIAN-CVE-2008-4242
Description
ProFTPD 1.3.1 interprets long commands from an FTP client as multiple commands, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks and execute arbitrary FTP commands via a long ftp:// URI that leverages an existing session from the FTP client implementation in a web browser.
Affected packages (2)
- Debian/proftpd-dfsgfrom 0, < 1.3.1-15
- Debian/proftpd-dfsgfrom 0, < 1.3.0-19etch2