CVE-2026-21620 (GCVE-0-2026-21620)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-02-20 10:57 – Updated: 2026-02-21 03:52
VLAI?
Title
TFTP Path Traversal
Summary
Relative Path Traversal, Improper Isolation or Compartmentalization vulnerability in erlang otp erlang/otp (tftp_file modules), erlang otp inets (tftp_file modules), erlang otp tftp (tftp_file modules) allows Relative Path Traversal. This vulnerability is associated with program files lib/tftp/src/tftp_file.erl, src/tftp_file.erl.
This issue affects otp: from 17.0, from 07b8f441ca711f9812fad9e9115bab3c3aa92f79; otp: from 5.10 before 7.0; otp: from 1.0.
Severity ?
CWE
- CWE-23 - Relative Path Traversal
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Credits
Luigino Camastra
Jakub Witczak
Raimo Niskanen
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