CVE-2023-24042

Published: Jan 21, 2023Modified: Jun 17, 2026

7.5

Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Exploitability: 1.6 / Impact: 5.9

Source: NVD

Description

A race condition in LightFTP through 2.2 allows an attacker to achieve path traversal via a malformed FTP request. A handler thread can use an overwritten context->FileName.

Affected (1)

Products: Hfiref0x: Lightftp

Hfiref0x

1 product

Lightftp

Configuration A

1 vulnerable

Vulnerable Software	Affected Versions
Hfiref0x Lightftp	Up to 2.2

Related CWEs

CWE-362

Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')

The product contains a code sequence that can run concurrently with other code, and the code sequence requires temporary, exclusive access to a shared resource, but a timing window exists in which the shared resource can be modified by another code sequence that is operating concurrently.

References (2)

https://github.com/hfiref0x/LightFTP/issues/25

Source: cve@mitre.org

ExploitIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory

https://github.com/hfiref0x/LightFTP/issues/25

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

ExploitIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory

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