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CVE-2008-7262

Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in FTPServer.py in pyftpdlib before 0.3.0 allow remote authenticated users to access arbitrary files and directories via vectors involving a symlink in a pathname to a (1) CWD, (2) DELE, (3) STOR, or (4) RETR command.

Published: Oct 19, 2010
Updated: Nov 9, 2025
CVE: CVE-2008-7262
GHSA: GHSA-jw88-wxv5-7c4f
Severity: Medium
Exploit:

CVSS v2:

Severity: Medium
Score: 6.5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

CWEs:

CWE-22

OWASP TOP 10:

A5 - Broken Access Control

Affected Software
References

Software	From	Fixed in
g.rodola / pyftpdlib	0.1	0.1.x
g.rodola / pyftpdlib	0.1.1	0.1.1.x
g.rodola / pyftpdlib	-	0.2.0.x
pyftpdlib	-	0.3.0

http://code.google.com/p/pyftpdlib/issues/detail?id=55
http://code.google.com/p/pyftpdlib/source/browse/trunk/HISTORY
https://github.com/giampaolo/pyftpdlib/issues/55
https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/pyftpdlib/PYSEC-2010-4.yaml

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