Tails before 1.7 includes the wget program but does not...
Vulnerability Description
Tails before 1.7 includes the wget program but does not prevent automatic fallback from passive FTP to active FTP, which allows remote FTP servers to discover the Tor client IP address by reading a (1) PORT or (2) EPRT command. NOTE: within wget itself, the automatic fallback is not considered a vulnerability by CVE.
Impact Analysis
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Remediation
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Credits & Attribution
No credits recorded in the NVD database.
References
- https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2015-October/009591.html
- https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2015-August/009370.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/10/01/10
- https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/10364
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-wget/2015-08/msg00020.html
- http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/wget.git/commit/?id=075d7556964f5a871a73c22ac4b69f5361295099
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76678
- https://tails.boum.org/news/version_1.7/index.en.html
Affected Vendor
tails project
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CVSS Vectors
Weaknesses (CWE)
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MITRE ATT&CK TTPs
No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.