Security advisory

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  "id": "749e33f5c6f89555fc83ab99166fe69009a60dbbedebe0ea1ce5408540fa2703",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2021-46398",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2021-46398",
    "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.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2021-46398",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "high",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2021-46398",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2021-46398",
        "GHSA-72wf-hwcq-65h9",
        "GO-2022-0563"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/filebrowser/filebrowser",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "7f2d2210839bff90e999c60406d22e5b5cb4054b"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "74b7cd8e81840537a8206317344f118093153e8d"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:filebrowser:filebrowser:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0"
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                      {
                        "fixed": "2.18.0"
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                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
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                    "range": [
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                        "fixed": "74b7cd8e81840537a8206317344f118093153e8d"
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                    "source": "REFERENCES_COMMIT"
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            "v2.10.0",
            "v2.9.0",
            "v2.8.0",
            "v2.7.0",
            "v2.6.2",
            "v2.6.1",
            "v2.6.0",
            "v2.5.0",
            "v2.4.0",
            "v2.3.0",
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            "v2.1.2",
            "v2.1.1",
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            "v2.0.3",
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            "v2.0.1",
            "v2.0.0",
            "v2.0.0-rc.2",
            "v2.0.0-rc.1",
            "v1.11.0",
            "v1.10.0",
            "v1.9.0",
            "v1.8.0",
            "v1.7.1",
            "v1.7.0",
            "v1.6.0",
            "v1.5.5",
            "v1.5.4",
            "v1.5.3",
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            "v1.5.1",
            "v1.5.0",
            "v1.4.6",
            "v1.4.5",
            "v1.4.4",
            "v1.4.3",
            "v1.4.0",
            "v1.3.12",
            "v1.3.11",
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          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2021-46398.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-20T10:54:14.247748048Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://github.com/filebrowser/filebrowser/commit/74b7cd8e81840537a8206317344f118093153e8d",
        "https://febin0x4e4a.blogspot.com/2022/01/critical-csrf-in-filebrowser.html",
        "https://febin0x4e4a.wordpress.com/2022/01/19/critical-csrf-in-filebrowser/",
        "https://febinj.medium.com/critical-csrf-to-rce-in-filebrowser-865a3c34b8e7",
        "https://systemweakness.com/critical-csrf-to-rce-in-filebrowser-865a3c34b8e7"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2021-46398",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 384985,
  "published_at": "2022-02-04T16:15:07.907+00:00"
}