CVE-2021-40964

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 8.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2021-09-15 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

A Path Traversal vulnerability exists in TinyFileManager all version up to and including 2.4.6 that allows attackers to upload a file (with Admin credentials or with the CSRF vulnerability) with the "fullpath" parameter containing path traversal strings (../ and ..\) in order to escape the server's intended working directory and write malicious files onto any directory on the computer.

Affected products

prasathmani TinyFileManager: through 2.4.6

References

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/166330/Tiny-File-Manager-2.4.6-Shell-Upload.html
https://gist.github.com/omriinbar/953368dcdd9e5eeefd83920166099528
https://github.com/prasathmani/tinyfilemanager
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/166330/Tiny-File-Manager-2.4.6-Shell-Upload.html
https://gist.github.com/omriinbar/953368dcdd9e5eeefd83920166099528
https://github.com/prasathmani/tinyfilemanager

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