CVE-2026-78254High· 7.4▾ TwilightThe ftp and scp tasks of Apache Ant can download files from a remote server. A malicious server can provide relative paths that allow it to write outside of the dedicated target directory for the download, making it possible to overwrite…
▾ Twilight zone — High severity, or a signal on a lesser flaw
impact 40.7 · likelihood 0.1 · exploitation 0
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Stakeholder-Specific Vulnerability Categorization from CISA's ADP record at CVE.org: whether exploitation is observed, whether an attack can be automated, and how much of the system is at stake.
Exploit-prediction probability, daily snapshots since Sep 8.
Disclosure to exploitation, from the record and what we observed since indexing it.
Disclosed via NVD
0.2%
— → 8.1
none → high
8.1 → 7.4
Last analysed / modified upstream
0.2% → 0.5%
The ftp and scp tasks of Apache Ant can download files from a remote server. A malicious server can provide relative paths that allow it to write outside of the dedicated target directory for the download, making it possible to overwrite files of the attacker's choice using the permissions of the user running Ant in versions prior to Ant 1.10.18.
In order to exploit this vulnerability, the server would either have to be malicious or be subject to a machine-in-the-middle attack. Additionally in the case of scp or the ftp task using ftps the server must pass the server identity checks performed by the tasks.
For ftp tasks not using ftps a malicious server could act as a machine-in-the-middle to provide malicious files.
Starting with Ant 1.10.18 both tasks will prevent writing outside of the destination directory by default. An option is available to disable this behavior in the unlikely case that the old behavior is required by existing build files.
Mitigations:
Users of scp and ftp (when using ftps) in any version of Ant should not bypass server identity checks. Users of ftp not using ftps should switch to ftps where possible.
All users are recommended to upgrade to Apache Ant 1.10.18, which fixes this issue.
ant < 1.10.18Upgrade past the affected range:
ant 1.10.18Field changes observed since this record was first indexed.
Connected by shared product, vendor, weakness, or advisory.
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