Summary
The host is running Small FTPD Server and is prone to directory traversal vulnerability.
Impact
Successful exploitation will allow attackers to read arbitrary files on the affected application.
Impact Level: Application
Solution
No solution or patch was made available for at least one year since disclosure of this vulnerability. Likely none will be provided anymore.
General solution options are to upgrade to a newer release, disable respective features, remove the product or replace the product by another one.
Insight
The flaw is due to an error handling certain requests which can be exploited to download arbitrary files from the host system via directory traversal sequences in the filenames.
Affected
Small FTPD Server version 1.0.3
References
Updated on 2015-03-25
