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High · 8.1 CVE-2026-73225 EUVD-2026-56916

electerm: Path traversal in FTP/SFTP recursive folder download via unsanitized server filename

Published Aug 11, 2026 · Updated Aug 11, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

electerm is an open-sourced terminal/ssh/sftp/telnet/serialport/RDP/VNC/Spice/ftp client. Prior to 3.15.120, electerm allows a malicious FTP or SFTP server to write attacker-controlled content outside the selected download directory because recursive transfers in src/client/components/file-transfer/transfer.jsx pass server-supplied file.name and folder.name values to resolve without sanitization. This issue is fixed in version 3.15.120.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
electerm electerm < 3.15.120 —

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