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FTP Writeable Directories Vulnerability Scan


Vulnerability Scan Summary
Checks for FTP directories which are world writeable

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Test

Synopsis :

The remote FTP server contains world-writeable files

Description :

By crawling through the remote FTP server, several directories
where marked as being world writeable.

A possible hacker may use this misconfiguration problem to use the
remote FTP server to host arbitrary data, including possibly
illegal content (ie: Divx movies, etc...).

Solution :

Configure the remote FTP directories so that they are not
world-writeable.

Threat Level:

Medium / CVSS Base Score : 5
(AV:R/AC:L/Au:NR/C:N/A:P/I:P/B:I)


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