CVE-2017-12170

critical

Published 2017-09-21 · Modified 2026-05-13

CVSS v3

9.8

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2

7.5

VIR risk

9.8

Description

Downstream version 1.0.46-1 of pure-ftpd as shipped in Fedora was vulnerable to packaging error due to which the original configuration was ignored after update and service started running with default configuration. This has security implications because of overriding security-related configuration. This issue doesn't affect upstream version of pure-ftpd.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

97%

Patch ETA

—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-12170

OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
fedora	26	affected
fedora	27	affected
debian	bookworm	fixed	`0`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`0`
debian	sid	fixed	`0`
debian	trixie	fixed	`0`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
pureftpd	pure-ftpd	`1.0.46-1`

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.