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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2021-23428

Due to missing sanitation of the user input and a missing check of the generated path its possible to escape the Files directory via path traversal

CRITICAL 9.8EPSS 1.67%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.67%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

Description

This affects all versions of package elFinder.NetCore. The Path.Combine(...) method is used to create an absolute file path. Due to missing sanitation of the user input and a missing check of the generated path its possible to escape the Files directory via path traversal

CVSS 3.1
9.8 CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
1.67% probability · 75th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-22
Affected
elfinder.netcore project/elfinder.netcore
Source
report@snyk.io

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.