CVE-2012-0315: Estsoft Alftp

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 1.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Untrusted search path vulnerability in ALFTP before 5.31 allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse executable file in a directory that is accessed for reading an extensionless file, as demonstrated by executing the README.exe file when a user attempts to access the README file.

Affected products

• Estsoft Alftp: up to and including 5.1; version 4.1 only; version 5.0 only; version 5.1 only

Published 2012-02-22. Last modified 2026-06-16.