Advisories

filebrowser through 2.63.23 Denial of Service via named pipes

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severity
medium
date
Affecting
  • filebrowser <= 2.63.23

CWE
  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
CVSS
8.2
CVSS V4 Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Credit
skeletonsec
Description
filebrowser through 2.63.23 fails to validate named pipes in directory archive and public download handlers, allowing attackers to trigger blocking open syscalls. Authenticated users or anonymous visitors with public share links can repeatedly request archives containing named pipes to pin server goroutines and exhaust connection resources.

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