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CVE-2021-46398

HIGH

8.8

CVSS Severity Score

EPSS Score0.1800%

EPSS Percentile8.37th

PublishedFeb 4, 2022

Last ModifiedNov 21, 2024

Vulnerability Description

A Cross-Site Request Forgery vulnerability exists in Filebrowser < 2.18.0 that allows attackers to create a backdoor user with admin privilege and get access to the filesystem via a malicious HTML webpage that is sent to the victim. An admin can run commands using the FileBrowser and hence it leads to RCE.

Affected Platforms (CPE)

📦

Filebrowser

Filebrowser

< 2.18.0

References & Advisories

🔗 http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/165885/FileBrowser-2.17.2-Code-Execution-Cross-Site-Request-Forgery.html

🔗 https://febin0x4e4a.blogspot.com/2022/01/critical-csrf-in-filebrowser.html

🔗 https://febin0x4e4a.wordpress.com/2022/01/19/critical-csrf-in-filebrowser/

🔗 https://febinj.medium.com/critical-csrf-to-rce-in-filebrowser-865a3c34b8e7

🔗 https://github.com/filebrowser/filebrowser/commit/74b7cd8e81840537a8206317344f118093153e8d

🔗 https://systemweakness.com/critical-csrf-to-rce-in-filebrowser-865a3c34b8e7

🔗 http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/165885/FileBrowser-2.17.2-Code-Execution-Cross-Site-Request-Forgery.html

🔗 https://febin0x4e4a.blogspot.com/2022/01/critical-csrf-in-filebrowser.html

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