Skip to main content
← All vulnerabilities
CVE-2021-46398GO-2022-0563GHSA-72WF-HWCQ-65H9

A Cross-Site Request Forgery vulnerability exists in Filebrowser < 2.18.0 that allows attackers to create a backdoor user with admin privile

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 2.18.0
1 on Exploit-DB, 2 proofs of concept on GitHub

Summary

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.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. Public exploit on Exploit-DB

    EDB-50717

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • n/a n/a

    Version range not reported

  • github.com/filebrowser/filebrowser/v2Go

    fixed in 2.18.0

References 9

GitHub · filebrowser/filebrowser

febin0x4e4a.blogspot.com

febin0x4e4a.wordpress.com

systemweakness.com

packetstormsecurity.com

febinj.medium.com

Exploit-DB

GitHub · LalieA/CVE-2021-46398

GitHub · febinrev/CVE-2021-46398_Chamilo-LMS-RCE