CVE-2022-40734 — UniSharp laravel-filemanager (aka Laravel Filemanager) before 2

UniSharp laravel-filemanager (aka Laravel Filemanager) before 2.6.4 allows download?working_dir=%2F.. directory traversal to read arbitrary files, as exploited in the wild in June 2022. This is related to league/flysystem before 2.0.0.

01What is this vulnerability?

UniSharp laravel-filemanager (aka Laravel Filemanager) before 2.6.4 allows download?working_dir=%2F.. directory traversal to read arbitrary files, as exploited in the wild in June 2022. This is related to league/flysystem before 2.0.0.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2022-09-14T00:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-03T12:21:46.472Z

09References

• github.com — https://github.com/UniSharp/laravel-filemanager/issues/1150
• github.com — https://github.com/UniSharp/laravel-filemanager/issues/1150#issuecomment-1320186…
• github.com — https://github.com/UniSharp/laravel-filemanager/issues/1150#issuecomment-1825310…