CWE-73 External Control of File Name or Path
baseThe product allows user input to control or influence paths or file names that are used in filesystem operations.
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| CVE-2026-96656US | —OT critical | KEV | ||
Plex Media Server before 1.43.3.10861 allows an admin user to write arbitrary files that may be executed on load. The preference TranscoderH264Options is appended verbatim to x264'… | ||||
| CVE-2025-33053US | —OT critical | KEV | ||
External control of file name or path in Internet Shortcut Files allows an unauthorized attacker to execute code over a network. | ||||
| CVE-2025-24054US | medium5.4OT critical | KEV | ||
External control of file name or path in Windows NTLM allows an unauthorized attacker to perform spoofing over a network. | ||||
| CVE-2025-0111US | medium6.5OT critical | KEV | ||
An authenticated file read vulnerability in the Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS software enables an authenticated attacker with network access to the management web interface to read fil… | ||||
| CVE-2024-43451US | —OT critical | KEV | ||
NTLM Hash Disclosure Spoofing Vulnerability | ||||
| CVE-2020-1631US | critical9.8OT critical | KEV | ||
A vulnerability in the HTTP/HTTPS service used by J-Web, Web Authentication, Dynamic-VPN (DVPN), Firewall Authentication Pass-Through with Web-Redirect, and Zero Touch Provisioning… | ||||
| CVE-2022-39952US | critical9.8 | Exploit | ||
A external control of file name or path in Fortinet FortiNAC versions 9.4.0, 9.2.0 through 9.2.5, 9.1.0 through 9.1.7, 8.8.0 through 8.8.11, 8.7.0 through 8.7.6, 8.6.0 through 8.6.… | ||||
| CVE-2024-8517US | critical9.8 | Exploit | ||
SPIP before 4.3.2, 4.2.16, and
4.1.18 is vulnerable to a command injection issue. A
remote and unauthenticated attacker can execute arbitrary operating system commands by sending… | ||||
| CVE-2018-17246US | critical9.8 | Exploit | ||
Kibana versions before 6.4.3 and 5.6.13 contain an arbitrary file inclusion flaw in the Console plugin. An attacker with access to the Kibana Console API could send a request that… | ||||
| CVE-2023-3643US | critical9.8 | Exploit | ||
A vulnerability was found in Boss Mini 1.4.0 Build 6221. It has been classified as critical. This affects an unknown part of the file boss/servlet/document. The manipulation of the… | ||||
| CVE-2016-4971US | high8.8 | Exploit | ||
GNU wget before 1.18 allows remote servers to write to arbitrary files by redirecting a request from HTTP to a crafted FTP resource. | ||||
| CVE-2023-6989US | critical9.8 | — | ||
The Shield Security – Smart Bot Blocking & Intrusion Prevention Security plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Local File Inclusion in all versions up to, and including, 18.5.9 via… | ||||
| CVE-2022-25359US | critical9.1OT high | Exploit | ||
On ICL ScadaFlex II SCADA Controller SC-1 and SC-2 1.03.07 devices, unauthenticated remote attackers can overwrite, delete, or create files. | ||||
| CVE-2024-46909US | critical9.8 | — | ||
In WhatsUp Gold versions released before 2024.0.1, a remote unauthenticated attacker could leverage this vulnerability to execute code in the context of the service account. | ||||
| CVE-2026-28286US | critical9.9 | Exploit | ||
ZimaOS is a fork of CasaOS, an operating system for Zima devices and x86-64 systems with UEFI. In version 1.5.2-beta3, the application enforces restrictions in the frontend/UI to p… | ||||
| CVE-2021-27250US | medium6.5 | — | ||
This vulnerability allows network-adjacent attackers to disclose sensitive information on affected installations of D-Link DAP-2020 v1.01rc001 Wi-Fi access points. Authentication i… | ||||
| CVE-2026-88899US | critical9.8 | Exploit | ||
knowns versions before 0.31.0 fail to properly validate the x-opencode-directory request header in the /api/opencode proxy endpoint. Remote attackers can supply arbitrary directory… | ||||
| CVE-2026-56705US | critical9.8 | Exploit | ||
Adminer before 5.4.3 fails to sanitize the server field before constructing a PDO DSN string, allowing unauthenticated attackers to inject ODBC parameters via semicolons. Attackers… | ||||
| CVE-2025-71338US | critical9.8 | Exploit | ||
Flowise contains a path traversal vulnerability in the /api/v1/document-store/loader/process endpoint that allows unauthenticated attackers to write arbitrary files to the filesyst… | ||||
| CVE-2026-27825US | high8.0 | Exploit | ||
MCP Atlassian is a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for Atlassian products (Confluence and Jira). Prior to version 0.17.0, the `confluence_download_attachment` MCP tool accepts… | ||||
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