Vulnerability · Published Sep 15, 2021 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2021-40964

Medium 6.5

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 8.2% (higher than 95% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: public proof-of-concept code.

Severity (CVSS NVD)6.5Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)8.2%top 5.1% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV

Attack tooling1Public PoC

Official description

A Path Traversal vulnerability exists in TinyFileManager all version up to and including 2.4.6 that allows attackers to upload a file (with Admin credentials or with the CSRF vulnerability) with the "fullpath" parameter containing path traversal strings (../ and ..\) in order to escape the server's intended working directory and write malicious files onto any directory on the computer.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

https://github.com/prasathmani/tinyfilemanager x_refsource_MISC
https://gist.github.com/omriinbar/953368dcdd9e5eeefd83920166099528 x_refsource_MISC
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/166330/Tiny-File-Manager-2.4.6-Shell-Upload.html x_refsource_MISC