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Fencer Vulns
medium 6.8

CVE-2007-2348 json

mirror --script in lftp before 3.5.9 does not properly quote shell metacharacters, which might allow remote user-assisted attackers to exec…

published 2007-04-27 19 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2007-2343

cvss
6.8
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.2%
EPSS 3.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 88%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

mirror --script in lftp before 3.5.9 does not properly quote shell metacharacters, which might allow remote user-assisted attackers to execute shell commands via a malicious script. NOTE: it is not clear whether this issue crosses security boundaries, since the script already supports commands such as "get" which could overwrite executable files.

Patch / fix

  • lftp Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 3.5.9-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2007-2348

  • lftp RHEL 5 3.7.11-4.el5

red hat advisories RHSA-2009:1278

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2007-2348 updated cvss 5.1

lftp mirror --script does not escape names and targets of symbolic links

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 lftp
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server) lftp 3.7.11-4.el5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client) lftp 3.7.11-4.el5
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2009:1278

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

3.17% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 88% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.