CVE-2022-40797

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2022-11-09 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-434

Description

Roxy Fileman 1.4.6 allows Remote Code Execution via a .phar upload, because the default FORBIDDEN_UPLOADS value in conf.json only blocks .php, .php4, and .php5 files. (Visiting any .phar file invokes the PHP interpreter in some realistic web-server configurations.)

Affected products

Roxyfileman Roxy Fileman: 1.4.6

References

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/169964/Roxy-Fileman-1.4.6-Remote-Shell-Upload.html
https://gist.github.com/Hadi999/1f66fe7c5a217ca261ebfec36c630d18
https://salsa.debian.org/php-team/php/-/blob/dc253886b5b2e9bc8d9e36db787abb083a667fd8/debian/php-cgi.conf#L5-6
https://web.archive.org/web/20210126213412/https://roxyfileman.com/download.php?f=1.4.6-php
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/169964/Roxy-Fileman-1.4.6-Remote-Shell-Upload.html
https://gist.github.com/Hadi999/1f66fe7c5a217ca261ebfec36c630d18
https://salsa.debian.org/php-team/php/-/blob/dc253886b5b2e9bc8d9e36db787abb083a667fd8/debian/php-cgi.conf#L5-6
https://web.archive.org/web/20210126213412/https://roxyfileman.com/download.php?f=1.4.6-php

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