🛡️ CVE-2019-6257 — elfinder

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-918 OSV
8.0
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

elFinder Server Side Request Forgery (SSRF)

A Server Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability in elFinder before 2.1.49 could allow a malicious user to access the content of internal network resources. This occurs in get_remote_contents() in php/elFinder.class.php.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is changed, meaning a successful attack can affect components beyond the vulnerable one. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity none, availability none.

Weakness class

CVE-2019-6257 is classified as CWE-918: Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF). The server fetches a URL supplied by the caller, which can be pointed at internal systems it alone can reach.

Affected software

CVE-2019-6257 is recorded against 1 package.

  • studio-42/elfinder (fixed in 2.1.49)

Timeline and source

Published on 13 May 2022 and last revised on 16 February 2024. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Package)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE CWE-918
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-05-13
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2024-02-16
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
studio-42/elfinder — 2.1.49

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