basic-ftp
6.2.3 · 9 Oct 2026MIT27.3M / weekRepositoryHomepagenpmAtom feed
Upgrading basic-ftp from 5.0.1 to 5.3.1
10 releases in betweennotes for 5
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- changes to make
- 4
- advisories fixed
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- new
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- fixes
Counted from 5 of 10 release notes. Advisories are counted from the advisory database, in full.
Security
1 advisory still affects 5.3.1
- basic-ftp: Quadratic-time CPU denial of service in Client.list() Unix directory-listing parser (RE_LINE backtracking)high · GHSA-c475-qrg2-pj4r
Upgrading to 6.2.1 clears it.
Fixes 4 advisories affecting 5.0.1
- Basic FTP has Path Traversal Vulnerability in its downloadToDir() methodcritical · GHSA-5rq4-664w-9x2c
- basic-ftp: Incomplete CRLF Injection Protection Allows Arbitrary FTP Command Execution via Credentials and MKD Commandshigh · GHSA-6v7q-wjvx-w8wg
- basic-ftp vulnerable to denial of service via unbounded memory consumption in Client.list()high · GHSA-rp42-5vxx-qpwr
- basic-ftp allows a malicious FTP server to cause client-side denial of service via unbounded multiline control response bufferinghigh · GHSA-rpmf-866q-6p89
- 5.3.0
Changed: Introduced an upper bound for total bytes of directory listing, fixes github.com/patrickjuchli/basic-ftp/security/adv….
- 5.2.2
Fixed: Improve control character rejection, fixes github.com/patrickjuchli/basic-ftp/security/adv….
- 5.2.1
Fixed: Reject control character injection attempts using paths. See github.com/patrickjuchli/basic-ftp/security/adv….
4 other lines we could not sort, mostly version bumps
- 5.3.0
Added: Option to increase the upper bound for total bytes of directory listing in Client constructor.
- 5.2.0
Changed: Skip files with invalid name in downloadToDir.
- 5.0.2
Fixed: Use existing code path to close control socket when replacing it.
- 5.0.2
Fixed: Destroy sockets explicitly on timeouts only.