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SCA: security update for ftp-srv (GHSA-pmw4-jgxx-pcq9)

critical Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 431986

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - ftp-srv is an open-source FTP server designed to be simple yet configurable. In ftp-srv before version
 4.4.0 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 in version 4.4.0 (commit
 457b859450a37cba10ff3c431eb4aa67771122e3). (CVE-2020-26299)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-pmw4-jgxx-pcq9

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 431986

Version: Revision 1.1

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/7/2025

Updated: 8/7/2025

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.8

Percentile: 56.9

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-26299

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.6

Temporal Score: 8.6

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/10/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/10/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-26299

cwe: CWE-22