CVE-2025-5196CWE-250

Wing FTP Server Lua Admin Console unnecessary privileges

High · published May 26, 2025

CVSS v4.0
7.5
EPSS
1%
Percentile
65.6
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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."

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v4.0
7.5 · HIGH
Vector
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
EPSS
0.01109 · 65.6th percentile
Weakness
CWE-250 · Execution with Unnecessary Privileges
Published
2025-05-26T13:31Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 26 MAY 13:31Z
    Wing FTP Server Lua Admin Console unnecessary privileges
    cvelistv5