{"cve":"CVE-2021-46398","nvd":{"published":"2022-02-04T16:15:07.907","modified":"2026-06-17T04:14:51.080","status":"Modified","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.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","score":8.8},"cwes":["CWE-352"],"references":["http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/165885/FileBrowser-2.17.2-Code-Execution-Cross-Site-Request-Forgery.html","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://github.com/filebrowser/filebrowser/commit/74b7cd8e81840537a8206317344f118093153e8d"],"products":["filebrowser:filebrowser"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T21:27:20.926095847+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2021-46398","score":0.06717,"percentile":0.93926,"date":"2026-10-31"},"kev":null,"osv":[{"id":"GHSA-72wf-hwcq-65h9","url":"https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-72wf-hwcq-65h9","summary":"Cross-Site Request Forgery in Filebrowser","modified":"2024-05-20T21:22:49Z","packages":[{"ecosystem":"Go","name":"github.com/filebrowser/filebrowser/v2","purl":"pkg:golang/github.com/filebrowser/filebrowser/v2","ranges":["<2.18.0"],"fixed":["2.18.0"]}]},{"id":"GO-2022-0563","url":"https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GO-2022-0563","summary":"Cross-site request forgery in github.com/filebrowser/filebrowser/v2","modified":"2024-05-20T16:03:47Z","packages":[{"ecosystem":"Go","name":"github.com/filebrowser/filebrowser/v2","purl":"pkg:golang/github.com/filebrowser/filebrowser/v2","ranges":["<2.18.0"],"fixed":["2.18.0"]}]}],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}