Critical
Security advisory
rejetto HFS (aka HTTP File Server) 3 before 0.52.10 on Linux, UNIX, and macOS allows OS command execution by remote authenticated users (if they have Upload permissions). This occurs because a shell is used to execute df (i.e., with execSync instead of spawnSync in child_process in Node.js).
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2024-39943
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 7 Nov 2026, 03:39 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
rejetto HFS (aka HTTP File Server) 3 before 0.52.10 on Linux, UNIX, and macOS allows OS command execution by remote authenticated users (if they have Upload permissions). This occurs because a shell is used to execute df (i.e., with execSync instead of spawnSync in child_process in Node.js).
osv:CVE-2024-39943
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:49.613867288Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://github.com/rejetto/hfs/compare/v0.52.9...v0.52.10",
"https://www.rejetto.com/wiki/index.php/HFS:_Working_with_uploads",
"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/39xxx/CVE-2024-39943.json",
"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-39943",
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