{"id":"CVE-2025-52997","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2025-52997","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T04:35:23.394Z","title":"Prior to version 2.34.1, a missing password policy and brute-force protection makes the authentication process insecure.","description":"File Browser provides a file managing interface within a specified directory and it can be used to upload, delete, preview, rename and edit files. Prior to version 2.34.1, a missing password policy and brute-force protection makes the authentication process insecure. Attackers could mount a brute-force attack to retrieve the passwords of all accounts in a given instance. This issue has been patched in version 2.34.1.","published":"2025-06-30T20:15:26.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T09:37:27.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"security-advisories@github.com","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":7.5,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-307","CWE-521","CWE-1392"],"affected":["filebrowser/filebrowser"],"epss":{"score":0.0054,"percentile":0.45239,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.54%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/filebrowser/filebrowser/commit/bf37f88c32222ad9c186482bb97338a9c9b4a93c","tags":["Patch"],"source":"security-advisories@github.com"},{"url":"https://github.com/filebrowser/filebrowser/security/advisories/GHSA-cm2r-rg7r-p7gg","tags":["Exploit","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"security-advisories@github.com"},{"url":"https://github.com/sbaresearch/advisories/tree/public/2025/SBA-ADV-20250327-01_Filebrowser_Insecure_Password_Handling","source":"security-advisories@github.com"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-52997","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}