diff --git a/application/utils.inc.php b/application/utils.inc.php
index 43786e687e..fbe77ded15 100644
--- a/application/utils.inc.php
+++ b/application/utils.inc.php
@@ -1886,6 +1886,9 @@ SQL;
 			$aHTTPHeaders[] = trim($sHeaderString);
 		}
 		// Default options, can be overloaded/extended with the 4th parameter of this method, see above $aCurlOptions
+		$iCurlAllowedProtocols = self::ConvertProtocolsToCurlOption(
+			self::GetConfig()->Get('security.post_requests.allowed_protocols')
+		);
 		$aOptions = [
 			CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,     // return the content of the request
 			CURLOPT_HEADER         => false,    // don't return the headers in the output
@@ -1908,6 +1911,9 @@ SQL;
 		$aAllOptions = $aCurlOptions + $aOptions;
 		$ch = curl_init($sUrl);
 		curl_setopt_array($ch, $aAllOptions);
+		if (!curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROTOCOLS, $iCurlAllowedProtocols)) {
+			throw new Exception('Unable to enforce allowed protocols for cURL request');
+		}
 		$response = curl_exec($ch);
 		$iErr = curl_errno($ch);
 		$sErrMsg = curl_error($ch);
@@ -1929,6 +1935,40 @@ SQL;
 		return $response;
 	}
 
+	private static function ConvertProtocolsToCurlOption(string $sProtocols): int
+	{
+		$aProtocols = explode(',', $sProtocols);
+
+		$iCurlProtocols = 0;
+		foreach ($aProtocols as $sProtocol) {
+			$iCurlProtocols |= match (strtolower(trim($sProtocol))) {
+				'dict' => defined('CURLPROTO_DICT') ? CURLPROTO_DICT : 0,
+				'file' => defined('CURLPROTO_FILE') ? CURLPROTO_FILE : 0,
+				'ftp' => defined('CURLPROTO_FTP') ? CURLPROTO_FTP : 0,
+				'ftps' => defined('CURLPROTO_FTPS') ? CURLPROTO_FTPS : 0,
+				'gopher' => defined('CURLPROTO_GOPHER') ? CURLPROTO_GOPHER : 0,
+				'http' => defined('CURLPROTO_HTTP') ? CURLPROTO_HTTP : 0,
+				'https' => defined('CURLPROTO_HTTPS') ? CURLPROTO_HTTPS : 0,
+				'imap' => defined('CURLPROTO_IMAP') ? CURLPROTO_IMAP : 0,
+				'imaps' => defined('CURLPROTO_IMAPS') ? CURLPROTO_IMAPS : 0,
+				'ldap' => defined('CURLPROTO_LDAP') ? CURLPROTO_LDAP : 0,
+				'ldaps' => defined('CURLPROTO_LDAPS') ? CURLPROTO_LDAPS : 0,
+				'mqtt' => defined('CURLPROTO_MQTT') ? CURLPROTO_MQTT : 0,
+				'pop3' => defined('CURLPROTO_POP3') ? CURLPROTO_POP3 : 0,
+				'pop3s' => defined('CURLPROTO_POP3S') ? CURLPROTO_POP3S : 0,
+				'rtsp' => defined('CURLPROTO_RTSP') ? CURLPROTO_RTSP : 0,
+				'scp' => defined('CURLPROTO_SCP') ? CURLPROTO_SCP : 0,
+				'sftp' => defined('CURLPROTO_SFTP') ? CURLPROTO_SFTP : 0,
+				'smtp' => defined('CURLPROTO_SMTP') ? CURLPROTO_SMTP : 0,
+				'smtps' => defined('CURLPROTO_SMTPS') ? CURLPROTO_SMTPS : 0,
+				'telnet' => defined('CURLPROTO_TELNET') ? CURLPROTO_TELNET : 0,
+				'tftp' => defined('CURLPROTO_TFTP') ? CURLPROTO_TFTP : 0,
+				default => throw new Exception("Unsupported protocol: $sProtocol"),
+			};
+		}
+		return $iCurlProtocols;
+	}
+
 	public static function QuoteForPHP(string $sValue): string
 	{
 		$sEscaped = str_replace(['\\', "'"], ['\\\\', "\\'"], $sValue);
diff --git a/core/config.class.inc.php b/core/config.class.inc.php
index b8be9b0932..e0a9f25e38 100644
--- a/core/config.class.inc.php
+++ b/core/config.class.inc.php
@@ -1786,6 +1786,14 @@ class Config
 			'source_of_value'     => '',
 			'show_in_conf_sample' => false,
 		],
+		'security.post_requests.allowed_protocols' => [
+			'type'                => 'string',
+			'description'         => 'List of allowed protocols that will be used for post requests. Allowed values: dict, file, ftp, ftps, gopher, http, https, imap, imaps, ldap, ldaps, mqtt, pop3, pop3s, rtsp, scp, sftp, smtp, smtps, telnet, tftp',
+			'default'             => 'http,https,ftp,ftps,sftp',
+			'value'               => 'http,https,ftp,ftps,sftp',
+			'source_of_value'     => '',
+			'show_in_conf_sample' => false,
+		],
 		'behind_reverse_proxy' => [
 			'type' => 'bool',
 			'description' => 'If true, then proxies custom header (X-Forwarded-*) are taken into account. Use only if the webserver is not publicly accessible (reachable only by the reverse proxy)',
diff --git a/tests/php-unit-tests/unitary-tests/application/utilsTest.php b/tests/php-unit-tests/unitary-tests/application/utilsTest.php
index b0cf9a6f21..881fc5a6b5 100644
--- a/tests/php-unit-tests/unitary-tests/application/utilsTest.php
+++ b/tests/php-unit-tests/unitary-tests/application/utilsTest.php
@@ -72,6 +72,30 @@ class utilsTest extends ItopTestCase
 		];
 	}
 
+	/**
+	 * @dataProvider DoPostRequestAllowedProtocolsProvider
+	 */
+	public function testDoPostRequestRespectsAllowedProtocolsConfig(string $sAllowedProtocols, bool $bFileProtocolAllowed): void
+	{
+		// Config::Set changes the in-memory setting only; the test framework reloads config after this test class.
+		utils::GetConfig()->Set('security.post_requests.allowed_protocols', $sAllowedProtocols);
+		if (!$bFileProtocolAllowed) {
+			$this->expectException(\Exception::class);
+			$this->expectExceptionMessage('Problem opening URL');
+		} else {
+			$this->expectNotToPerformAssertions();
+		}
+		utils::DoPostRequest('file:///tmp', ['payload' => 'test']);
+	}
+
+	public function DoPostRequestAllowedProtocolsProvider(): array
+	{
+		return [
+			'file protocol is allowed' => ['file,http,https', true],
+			'file protocol is not allowed' => ['http,https', false],
+		];
+	}
+
 	/**
 	 * @dataProvider realPathDataProvider
 	 * @covers       utils::RealPath()