CWE-646 Reliance on File Name or Extension of Externally-Supplied File
variantThe product allows a file to be uploaded, but it relies on the file name or extension of the file to determine the appropriate behaviors. This could be used by attackers to cause the file to be misclassified and processed in a dangerous fashion.
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parent weaknesses
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vulnerabilities (13)
Known CVEs related to this entry.
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| CVE-2025-1716US | critical9.8 | Exploit | ||
picklescan before 0.0.21 does not treat 'pip' as an unsafe global. An attacker could craft a malicious model that uses Pickle to pull in a malicious PyPI package (hosted, for examp… | ||||
| CVE-2025-1889US | critical9.8 | — | ||
picklescan before 0.0.22 only considers standard pickle file extensions in the scope for its vulnerability scan. An attacker could craft a malicious model that uses Pickle and incl… | ||||
| CVE-2024-38432US | critical9.8OT elevated | — | ||
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CWE-646: Reliance on File Name or Extension of Externally-Supplied File | ||||
| CVE-2023-45599US | high8.8 | — | ||
A CWE-646 “Reliance on File Name or Extension of Externally-Supplied File” vulnerability in the “iec61850” functionality of the web application allows a remote authenticated attack… | ||||
| CVE-2021-34639US | high8.8 | — | ||
Authenticated File Upload in WordPress Download Manager <= 3.1.24 allows authenticated (Author+) users to upload files with a double extension, e.g. "payload.php.png" which is exec… | ||||
| CVE-2024-52052US | high7.2 | — | ||
Wowza Streaming Engine below 4.9.1 permits an authenticated Streaming Engine Manager administrator to define a custom application property and poison a stream target for high-privi… | ||||
| CVE-2025-30662US | medium6.5 | — | ||
Symlink following in the installer for the Zoom Workplace VDI Plugin macOS Universal installer before version 6.3.14, 6.4.14, and 6.5.10 in their respective tracks may allow an aut… | ||||
| CVE-2023-0350US | medium6.5OT elevated | — | ||
Akuvox E11 does not ensure that a file extension is associated with the file provided. This could allow an attacker to upload a file to the device by changing the extension of a ma… | ||||
| CVE-2023-21843US | low3.7 | — | ||
Vulnerability in the Oracle Java SE, Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition product of Oracle Java SE (component: Sound). Supported versions that are affected are Oracle Java SE: 8u351… | ||||
| CVE-2026-45315US | — | — | ||
Open WebUI is a self-hosted artificial intelligence platform designed to operate entirely offline. Prior to 0.9.3, the audio transcription upload endpoint takes the file extension… | ||||
| CVE-2026-20172US | — | — | ||
A vulnerability in the Lite Agent feature of Cisco Enterprise Chat and Email (ECE) could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to conduct browser-based attacks. To exploit this v… | ||||
| CVE-2025-41720US | — | — | ||
A low privileged remote attacker can upload arbitrary data masked as a png file to the affected device using the webserver API because only the file extension is verified. | ||||
| CVE-2025-58449US | — | — | ||
Maho is a free and open source ecommerce platform. In Maho prior to 25.9.0, an authenticated staff user with access to the `Dashboard` and `Catalog\Manage Products` permissions can… | ||||
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attack patterns (1)
CAPEC attack patterns that exploit this.
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