CVE-2009-3478: Nightlight Fireftp

Medium severity, CVSS 6.0. EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Argument injection vulnerability in (1) src/content/js/connection/sftp.js and (2) src/content/js/connection/controlSocket.js.in in FireFTP Extension 1.0.5 for Firefox allows remote authenticated SFTP users to cause victims to alter permissions, delete, download, or move the wrong file via a filename containing " (double quotes), which is not properly filtered or encoded when FireFTP constructs the command to send to psftp.exe.

Affected products

• Nightlight Fireftp: version 1.0.5 only

Published 2009-09-29. Last modified 2026-06-16.