CVE-2018-20525

published 2019-03-21

CVE-2018-20525: Roxy Fileman 1.4.5 allows Directory Traversal in copydir.php, copyfile.php, and fileslist.php.

Priority P2 69 critical 9.1 CVSS 3.1

AV N AC L PR N UI N S U C H I H A N

EXPLOIT

Roxy Fileman 1.4.5 allows Directory Traversal in copydir.php, copyfile.php, and fileslist.php.

Affected

1 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
roxyfileman	roxy_fileman	—	—

Detection & IOCs extracted from sources · hover to see the quote

path /fileman/php/copydir.php↗

path /fileman/php/copyfile.php↗

path /fileman/php/fileslist.php↗

path /fileman/php/upload.php↗

command d=%2Ffileman%2FUploads%2F*/../../../../../../../../etc/*&n=%2Ffileman%2FUploads/↗

command f=%2Ffileman%2FUploads%2F*/../../../../../../../../etc/passwd*&type=↗

command d=%2Ffileman%2FUploads%2FImages*/../../../../../../../../etc*&type=↗

filename phpshell.php.png↗

cookie roxyld=%2Ffileman%2FUploads%2FImages; roxyview=list↗

• → Monitor for the X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest header combined with traversal payloads in POST bodies to /fileman/php/ endpoints, as all exploit requests use this header. ↗
• → Look for traversal patterns targeting /etc/passwd or /etc/ in POST body parameters d= or f= sent to Roxy Fileman PHP scripts. ↗

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.1 9.1 CRITICAL CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

nvd v2.0 6.4 MEDIUM AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

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