7.5

CVE-2024-48651: proftpd Incorrect Authorization

Deferred
AliasesMGASA-2025-0015UBUNTU-CVE-2024-48651DEBIAN-CVE-2024-48651
Published 29-11-2024Last modified 03-11-2025

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2024-48651 is a high (CVSS 7.5) Incorrect Authorization vulnerability in proftpd. EPSS estimates a 2.16% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 82.2% of scored vulnerabilities.

Priority
Prioritisesevere

Severe, CVSS 7.5 (CVE.org); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources; EPSS 2% (FIRST, 03-11-2026)

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?
CVSS score
7.5/10
010
High · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
2.16%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.
RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 3 · Related 2
DLA-3975-1SUSE-SU-2025:1028-1USN-7297-1

Timeline

  1. 29-11-2024
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 03-11-2025
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

In ProFTPD through 1.3.8b before cec01cc, supplemental group inheritance grants unintended access to GID 0 because of the lack of supplemental groups from mod_sql.

CVSS metrics

5 scores · 5 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

2.16%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

82%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

No change 0.00 pp

From 2.16% on 04-10-2026

04-10-202603-11-2026

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEV

Not in the CISA KEV catalog.

ENISA CNW

Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.

CIRCL

Not in the CIRCL catalog.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Version check

Known conditions: network-reachable, no authentication, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.

Alpine1 product
  • proftpd< 1.3.8c-r0
Debian1 product
  • proftpd-dfsg< 1.3.8+dfsg-4+deb12u4 | < 1.3.8.b+dfsg-4
Mageia1 product
  • proftpd< 1.3.8c-1.mga9
Opensuse1 product
  • proftpd&distro=openSUSE Tumbleweed< 1.3.8c-1.1
Ubuntu1 product
  • proftpd-dfsg< 1.3.6c-2ubuntu0.1 | < 1.3.7c+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1 | < 1.3.8.b+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1

5 vendors · 5 products

References

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