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CVE-2025-5196 – Wing FTP Server Lua Admin Console Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

The following table lists the changes that have been made to the
CVE-2025-5196 vulnerability over time.

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of a vulnerability, and for identifying the most recent changes that may
impact the vulnerability’s severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.

  • New CVE Received
    by [email protected]

    May. 26, 2025

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added 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.”
    Added CVSS V4.0 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
    Added CVSS V3.1 AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
    Added CVSS V2 (AV:N/AC:H/Au:M/C:C/I:C/A:C)
    Added CWE CWE-250
    Added Reference https://github.com/Nouvexr/Wing-FTP-Server-7.4.4-RCE-Authenticated/blob/main/poc.txt
    Added Reference https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.310279
    Added Reference https://vuldb.com/?id.310279
    Added Reference https://vuldb.com/?submit.584253
    Added Reference https://www.wftpserver.com/serverhistory.htm
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