SCA: security update for studio-42/elfinder (GHSA-45x3-mw7q-wf7f)

critical Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 433704

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

- Studio 42 elFinder before 2.1.36 has a directory traversal vulnerability in elFinder.class.php with the
zipdl() function that can allow a remote attacker to download files accessible by the web server process
and delete files owned by the account running the web server process. (CVE-2018-9109)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-45x3-mw7q-wf7f

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 433704

Version: Revision 1.2

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/19/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.3

Percentile: 53.04

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-9109

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 7.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/13/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/28/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-9109

cwe: CWE-22