CVE-2025-52997

File Browser Insecurely Handles Passwords

State: Published
Severity: 5.9 Medium
Published: Jun 30, 2025
Updated: Aug 4, 2025
Reserved: Jun 24, 2025

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.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	5.9 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N	GitHub_M

Weaknesses

CWE-307 Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts
CWE-521 Weak Password Requirements
CWE-1392 Use of Default Credentials

Affected Products

Product	Versions
filebrowserfilebrowser	< 2.34.1Affected

References

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