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CVE-2021-46398 Details

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.

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CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST: [email protected]CVSS-B:8.8 HIGHVector:CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URLSource(s)Tag(s)
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/165885/FileBrowser-2.17.2-Code-Execution-Cross-Site-Request-Forgery.html CVEExploitThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
https://febin0x4e4a.blogspot.com/2022/01/critical-csrf-in-filebrowser.html CVEExploitThird Party Advisory
https://febin0x4e4a.wordpress.com/2022/01/19/critical-csrf-in-filebrowser/ CVEExploitThird Party Advisory
https://febinj.medium.com/critical-csrf-to-rce-in-filebrowser-865a3c34b8e7 CVEExploitThird Party Advisory
https://github.com/filebrowser/filebrowser/commit/74b7cd8e81840537a8206317344f118093153e8d CVEPatchThird Party Advisory

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Weakness Enumeration

CWE-IDCWE NameSource
CWE-352Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)[email protected]

Affected Products

ProductVersions
filebrowser filebrowser
< 2.18.0

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:a:filebrowser:filebrowser:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.

Change History

8 change records found show changes

QUICK INFO

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2021-46398
NVD Published Date:
Feb 4, 2022
NVD Last Modified:
Jun 17, 2026
Source:
[email protected]
CVE-2021-46398 Details - Not Deferred