filebrowser Allows Shell Commands to Spawn Other Commands

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

• CISA KEV Not listed.
• EPSS 0.012, the 68th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

1. 31 Oct 2026, 15:08 UTC First seen by agentprime
2. 31 Oct 2026, 15:08 UTC Confirmed by OSV

Sources

• GitHub Advisory Database: GHSA-3q2w-42mv-cph4
• OSV: GHSA-3q2w-42mv-cph4
• github.com/filebrowser/filebrowser/security/advisories/GHSA-3q2w-42mv-cph4
• nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-52903
• github.com/filebrowser/filebrowser/issues/5199
• github.com/filebrowser/filebrowser/commit/4d830f707fc4314741fd431e70c2ce50cd5a3108
• github.com/GoogleContainerTools/distroless
• github.com/filebrowser/filebrowser
• github.com/sbaresearch/advisories/tree/public/2025/SBA-ADV-20250326-02_Filebrowser_Shell_Commands_Can_Spawn_Other_Commands
• manpages.debian.org/bookworm/util-linux/prlimit.1.en.html
• pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2025-3786

Facts on this page come from the GitHub Advisory Database (CC-BY 4.0), OSV and the other sources listed, as published. We don’t reproduce full advisory descriptions, which can contain exploit code.