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CVE-2021-40491

6.5 mediumEPSS 1.0%

Medium (6.5). EPSS 1.0% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The ftp client in GNU Inetutils before 2.2 does not validate addresses returned by PASV/LSPV responses to make sure they match the server address. This is similar to CVE-2020-8284 for curl.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

6.5 medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
EPSS
1.0% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 62% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE
CWE-345
Published
Modified
Record from
the NVD, synced

Affected

References

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