CVE-2010-20103 describes a critical backdoor vulnerability found in the official ProFTPD 1.3.3c source tarball, distributed between November 28 and December 2, 2010. This backdoor enables remote, unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary shell commands with root privileges on affected FTP servers. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (CRITICAL) and a FAUCET Risk Score of 99/100, the vulnerability presents a severe risk due to its network-based attack vector, low complexity, and complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not listed on the KEV catalog, a Metasploit module exists for exploitation, indicating readily available exploit code, despite minimal community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
1.3.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:proftpd:proftpd:1.3.3:c:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 4.0
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.