A vulnerability was found in Ipswitch WS_FTP Pro up to 12.6.0.2. It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown functionality of the component Search. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-119. The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Ipswitch WS_FTP Professional before 12.6.0.3 has buffer overflows in the local search field and the backup locations field, aka WSCLT-1729.

The bug was discovered 11/03/2017. The weakness was shared 11/03/2017 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at docs.ipswitch.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2017-16513 since 11/03/2017. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack needs to be approached locally. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available.

A public exploit has been developed by Kevin McGuigan and been published immediately after the advisory. The exploit is available at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept.

Upgrading to version 12.6.0.3 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Exploit-DB (43115).

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• Ipswitch

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• WS_FTP Pro

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• 12.6.0.0
• 12.6.0.1
• 12.6.0.2

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• commercial

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