CVE-2017-12170
CriticalSummary
Version 1.0.46-1 of pure-ftpd shipped in Fedora was vulnerable to a packaging error that caused the original configuration to be ignored after an update, resulting in the service running with the default configuration.
Risk Assessment
This has security implications as it overrides security-related configuration, potentially leading to unauthorized access or other threats.
Recommendation
It is recommended to monitor and manually restore the original configuration after updates and consider using a newer version of the software that is not affected by this issue.
Original NVD description (English source)
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.