CVE-2026-62843

medium

Description

File Browser is a file managing interface for uploading, deleting, previewing, renaming, and editing files within a specified directory. From 2.63.6 to 2.63.16, File Browser's archive builder uses strings.ReplaceAll(nameInArchive, "\", "/"), which turns a POSIX filename such as ..\..\evil.sh into the archive entry ../../evil.sh, allowing a user with upload permission to plant a backslash-named file that escapes the extraction directory when another user downloads and extracts the generated zip or tar archive. This issue is fixed in version 2.63.17.

References

https://github.com/filebrowser/filebrowser/security/advisories/GHSA-83xp-526h-j3ww

https://github.com/filebrowser/filebrowser/releases/tag/v2.63.17

https://github.com/filebrowser/filebrowser/commit/8503ba61ff51d48a7313896483d130eb6a5abfe0

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-07-15

Updated: 2026-07-15

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:C/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.8

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

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00259