Vulnerability · Published Aug 31, 2021 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2021-37794
Medium 5.4
In plain English
A medium-severity security flaw in the affected software. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.8% (higher than 56% of all known vulnerabilities).
Severity (CVSS NVD)5.4Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.8%top 43.9% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known
Official description
A stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability exists in FileBrowser < v2.16.0 that allows an authenticated user authorized to upload a malicious .svg file which acts as a stored XSS payload. If this stored XSS payload is triggered by an administrator it will trigger malicious OS commands on the server running the FileBrowser instance.
Affected products (as reported)
References
- https://github.com/filebrowser/filebrowser x_refsource_MISC
- https://gist.github.com/omriinbar/1e28649f31d795b0e9b7698a9d255b5c x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/filebrowser/filebrowser/commit/201329abce4e92ae9071b9ded81e267aae159fbd x_refsource_MISC