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CVE-2025-52997: File Browser Insecurely Handles Passwords

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2025-06-30 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-307

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.

Affected products

• filebrowser: before 2.34.1 — fixed in 2.34.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: filebrowser 2.34.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/filebrowser/filebrowser/commit/bf37f88c32222ad9c186482bb97338a9c9b4a93c
• https://github.com/filebrowser/filebrowser/security/advisories/GHSA-cm2r-rg7r-p7gg
• https://github.com/sbaresearch/advisories/tree/public/2025/SBA-ADV-20250327-01_Filebrowser_Insecure_Password_Handling

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