CVE-2020-26299

Path Traversal in npm/ftp-srv

Identifiers

CVE-2020-26299, GHSA-pmw4-jgxx-pcq9

Package Slug

npm/ftp-srv

Vulnerability

Path Traversal

Description

ftp-srv is an open-source FTP server designed to be simple yet configurable. In ftp-srv there is a path-traversal vulnerability. Clients of FTP servers utilizing ftp-srv hosted on Windows machines can escape the FTP user's defined root folder using the expected FTP commands, for example, CWD and UPDR. When windows separators exist within the path (\), path.resolve leaves the upper pointers intact and allows the user to move beyond the root folder defined for that user. We did not take that into account when creating the path resolve function. The issue is patched (commit b859450a37cba10ff3c431eb4aa67771122e3).

Affected Versions

All versions before 4.4.0

Solution

Upgrade to version 4.4.0 or above.

Last Modified

2021-02-23

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