SFTPGo has insufficient sanitization of user provided rsync command in github.com/drakkan/sftpgo
SFTPGo has insufficient sanitization of user provided rsync command in github.com/drakkan/sftpgo. NOTE: The source advisory for this report contains additional versions that could not be automatically mapped to standard Go module versions. (If this is causing false-positive reports from vulnerability scanners, please suggest an edit to the report.) The additional affected modules and versions are: .
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
23 explicit affected versions
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
SFTPGo has insufficient sanitization of user provided rsync command in github.com/drakkan/sftpgo. NOTE: The source advisory for this report contains additional versions that could not be automatically mapped to standard Go module versions. (If this is causing false-positive reports from vulnerability scanners, please suggest an edit to the report.) The additional affected modules and versions are: .
### Impact SFTPGo supports execution of a defined set of commands via SSH. Besides a set of default commands some optional commands can be activated, one of them being `rsync`: it is disabled in the default configuration and it is limited to the local filesystem, it does not work with cloud/remote storage backends. Due to missing sanitization of the client provided `rsync` command, an authenticated remote user can use some options of the rsync command to read or write files with the permissions of the SFTPGo server process. ### Patches This issue was fixed in version v2.6.5 by checking the client provided arguments. https://github.com/drakkan/sftpgo/commit/b347ab6051f6c501da205c09315fe99cd1fa3ba1
SFTPGo is an open source, event-driven file transfer solution. SFTPGo supports execution of a defined set of commands via SSH. Besides a set of default commands some optional commands can be activated, one of them being `rsync`. It is disabled in the default configuration and it is limited to the local filesystem, it does not work with cloud/remote storage backends. Due to missing sanitization of the client provided `rsync` command, an authenticated remote user can use some options of the rsync command to read or write files with the permissions of the SFTPGo server process. This issue was fixed in version v2.6.5 by checking the client provided arguments. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- https://github.com/drakkan/sftpgo/commit/b347ab6051f6c501da205c09315fe99cd1fa3ba1
- https://github.com/drakkan/sftpgo/security/advisories/GHSA-vj7w-3m8c-6vpx
- https://github.com/drakkan/sftpgo
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-24366
- https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/24xxx/CVE-2025-24366.json