FileZilla: Untrusted search path A vulnerability was found in FileZilla which might allow privilege escalation. filezilla 2020-07-27 2020-07-27 717726 remote 3.47.2.1 3.47.2.1

FileZilla is an open source FTP client.

It was discovered that FileZilla uses an untrusted search path.

An attacker could use a malicious binary to escalate privileges.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All FileZilla users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-ftp/filezilla-3.47.2.1" CVE-2019-5429 sam_c sam_c