CVE-2025-5196

Published May 26, 2025

Last updated 15 days ago

Overview

Description
A vulnerability has been found in Wing FTP Server up to 7.4.3 and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component Lua Admin Console. The manipulation leads to execution with unnecessary privileges. The attack can be launched remotely. The complexity of an attack is rather high. The exploitation appears to be difficult. Upgrading to version 7.4.4 is able to address this issue. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component. The vendor explains: "[W]e do not consider it as a security vulnerability, because the system admin in WingFTP has full permissions [...], but you can suggest the user run WingFTP service as Normal User rather than SYSTEM/Root, it will be safer."
Source
cna@vuldb.com
NVD status
Analyzed

Risk scores

CVSS 4.0

Type
Secondary
Base score
7.5
Impact score
-
Exploitability score
-
Vector string
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:H/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
Severity
HIGH

CVSS 3.1

Type
Secondary
Base score
6.6
Impact score
5.9
Exploitability score
0.7
Vector string
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Severity
MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

Type
Secondary
Base score
6.8
Impact score
10
Exploitability score
3.2
Vector string
AV:N/AC:H/Au:M/C:C/I:C/A:C

Weaknesses

cna@vuldb.com
CWE-250

Social media

Hype score
Not currently trending

Configurations