CVE-2026-62843

File Browser: Archive builder turns backslash filenames into path traversal (zip-slip)

MEDIUM
6.8
CVSS Score
Published: July 15, 2026 at 03:42 PM UTC
Updated: July 15, 2026 at 06:30 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorFilebrowser

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Severity
MEDIUM6.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.4%
SSVC
PoC

Description

File Browser is a file managing interface for uploading, deleting, previewing, renaming, and editing files within a specified directory. From 2.63.6 to 2.63.16, File Browser's archive builder uses strings.ReplaceAll(nameInArchive, "\", "/"), which turns a POSIX filename such as ..\..\evil.sh into the archive entry ../../evil.sh, allowing a user with upload permission to plant a backslash-named file that escapes the extraction directory when another user downloads and extracts the generated zip or tar archive. This issue is fixed in version 2.63.17.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

v < 2.63.17
Affected range stops below 2.63.17, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

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No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.

SSVC — Action Prioritization

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CVSS

6.8MEDIUMGitHub_M
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
LOW
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
HIGH
Availability
NONE
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusDEFERRED
CWE
CWE-22CWE-23

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