🛡️ CVE-2023-35840 — elfinder

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ⚠️ Exploit Public CWE-22 NVD
8.0
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Description

elFinder vulnerable to path traversal in LocalVolumeDriver connector

Impact

Path Traversal vulnerability in PHP LocalVolumeDriver connector. This vulnerability can be exploited by allowing untrusted users to write to the local file system.

This issue was caused by incomplete validity checking of the supplied request parameters. That problem has been fixed in elFinder Version 2.1.62.

Patches

This vulnerability has been fixed in elFinder 2.1.62. Installation managers should update to the latest version as soon as possible.

Workarounds

If you cannot update for some reason, you must stop using it or prohibit writing to untrusted users.

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 unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity high, availability none.

Weakness class

CVE-2023-35840 is classified as CWE-22: Path Traversal. A file path built from user input is not confined to the intended directory, letting an attacker reach files elsewhere on the filesystem.

Affected software

CVE-2023-35840 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • elfinder (fixed in 2.1.62)
  • studio-42/elfinder (fixed in 2.1.62)

Timeline and source

Published on 19 June 2023 and last revised on 17 June 2026. A public exploit is known to exist, which raises the urgency of patching considerably. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

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Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CWE CWE-22
Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes
Source NVD
Published 2023-06-19
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-06-17

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
elfinder 2.1.62
studio-42/elfinder 2.1.62

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