Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Vulnerability in Filebrowser < 2.18.0 Allows Creation of Backdoor User and Remote Code Execution (RCE)

CVE-2021-46398 · HIGH Severity

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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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