FTP Command Injection via CRLF in basic-ftp
21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 8.6epss 2.2%
exploitation probability
2.2%top 19% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
basic-ftp is an FTP client for Node.js. Prior to 5.2.1, basic-ftp allows FTP command injection via CRLF sequences (\r\n) in file path parameters passed to high-level path APIs such as cd(), remove(), rename(), uploadFrom(), downloadTo(), list(), and removeDir(). The library's protectWhitespace() helper only handles leading spaces and returns other paths unchanged, while FtpContext.send() writes the resulting command string directly to the control socket with \r\n appended. This lets attacker-controlled path strings split one intended FTP command into multiple commands. This vulnerability is fixed in 5.2.1.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:L
Affected products
patrickjuchli · basic-ftpReferences
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:13826https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:9742https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-39983https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2456971https://github.com/patrickjuchli/basic-ftp/commit/2ecc8e2c500c5234115f06fd1dbde1aa03d70f4bhttps://github.com/patrickjuchli/basic-ftp/releases/tag/v5.2.1https://github.com/patrickjuchli/basic-ftp/security/advisories/GHSA-chqc-8p9q-pq6qhttps://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-39983.json