CVE-2025-5196

Wing FTP Server Lua Admin Console unnecessary privileges

State: Published
Severity: 7.5 High
Published: May 26, 2025
Updated: May 28, 2025
Reserved: May 26, 2025

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."

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
4.0	7.5 High	CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N	VulDB
3.1	6.6 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	VulDB
3.0	6.6 Medium	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	VulDB
2.0	6.8 Medium	AV:N/AC:H/Au:M/C:C/I:C/A:C	VulDB

Weaknesses

CWE-250 Execution with Unnecessary Privileges

Affected Products

Product	Versions
FTP ServerWing	7.4.0Affected 7.4.1Affected 7.4.2Affected 7.4.3Affected

References

VDB-310279 | Wing FTP Server Lua Admin Console unnecessary privilegesvdb-entry
VDB-310279 | CTI Indicators (IOB, IOC, TTP)signaturepermissions-required
Submit #584253 | wftpserver Wing FTP Server 7.4.4 Remote Code Execution via Lua Admin Consolethird-party-advisory
https://github.com/Nouvexr/Wing-FTP-Server-7.4.4-RCE-Authenticated/blob/main/poc.txtexploit
https://www.wftpserver.com/serverhistory.htmpatch

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