diff --git a/addons/document_ftp/ftpserver/abstracted_fs.py b/addons/document_ftp/ftpserver/abstracted_fs.py
index a9efac5819c..5e81931d00b 100644
--- a/addons/document_ftp/ftpserver/abstracted_fs.py
+++ b/addons/document_ftp/ftpserver/abstracted_fs.py
@@ -260,6 +260,7 @@ class abstracted_fs(object):
         if path == '/' and mode in ('list', 'cwd'):
             return (None, None, None )
 
+        if path == '..': path = self.cwd + '/..'
         path = _to_unicode(os.path.normpath(path)) # again, for '/db/../ss'
         if path == '.': path = ''