B321.md

Pattern: Use of possibly insecure ftplib module

Issue: -

Description

FTP-related functions are being called. FTP was not designed to be a secure protocol, and has many security weaknesses. Use SSH, SFTP, SCP or some other encrypted protocol instead.

This rule checks for the following calls:

• ftplib.*

Further Reading

• Wikipedia - File Transfer Protocol - Security
• Bandit - B321: ftplib