The FTP and FTPS server -- if enabled -- would allow uploading to any folder that the copyparty process had permission to write to.
The FTP-server is default-disabled, and must be explicitly enabled in the config with global-option ftp or ftps to be affected. Additionally, SFTP was not affected at all; only FTP and FTPS.
This was not a full read/write path-traversal; it had the following limitations:
The main concern is the potential effect on other unrelated software which is running on the same system.
The severity is assuming the worst case (SC:H/SI:H), that the same machine is running some unrelated software that will execute new arbitrarily-named files as code, and that the copyparty process has sufficient privileges to write files into the config-folder of that unrelated software.
{
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-22"
],
"github_reviewed": true,
"github_reviewed_at": "2026-10-15T20:16:38Z",
"nvd_published_at": "2026-10-12T19:16:36Z",
"severity": "MODERATE"
}