RUSTSEC-2026-0271 FTP command injection via CRLF in control channel arguments

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Attackers can inject arbitrary FTP commands via CRLF in untrusted input, leading to unauthorized file deletion or data redirection.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Any signed-in user
Attackable
Over the internet
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
Available

What is RUSTSEC-2026-0271?

RUSTSEC-2026-0271 is a command injection vulnerability in suppaftp, published on 18 Aug 2026. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Affected versions of suppaftp wrote command arguments (user name, password, paths, SITE arguments and custom commands) to the FTP control channel without validation. An argument containing a carriage return (\r) or a line feed (\n) terminated the intended command line and let a second, attacker-chosen command be sent to the server within the same authenticated session.

An application that passes untrusted input as credentials, paths or command strings to methods such as login, cwd, mkdir, rmdir, rm, rename, retr, put_file, site or custom_command can therefore be made to execute arbitrary FTP commands with the application's privileges, for example deleting files or redirecting a data connection with an injected PORT.

All three clients are affected: sync, tokio and smol, with or without TLS.

The flaw was corrected in version 10.0.2 (commit 194bdd1): every command line is validated before it is written to the wire and rejected with FtpError::ConnectionError (std::io::ErrorKind::InvalidInput) if it contains CR or LF anywhere but in the trailing terminator. As a consequence, custom_command no longer accepts several commands joined by CRLF in a single call.

Users who cannot upgrade should reject or strip \r and \n from any untrusted string before passing it to the client.

Which versions are affected by RUSTSEC-2026-0271?

1 open source package ship an affected version, including suppaftp.

PackageAffectedFixed in
suppaftp crates.ioFrom 0.0.0-010.0.2

How do I fix RUSTSEC-2026-0271?

Upgrade suppaftp to 10.0.2 or later.

Upgrade, and pass arguments to programs as a list instead of through a shell. More about Command injection.

Is RUSTSEC-2026-0271 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of RUSTSEC-2026-0271 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Sources

Also known as GHSA-8mhj-xm4h-m5m6.

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