CVE-2023-39612

CRITICALNVD 9.09.0
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to NVD's CVSS score.

Score 9.0 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: CRITICAL) published 2023-09-16. NVD baseline CVSS 9.0; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, NVD CVSS v3
Trending — 3 sources updated this weekElevated

Also known asEUVD-2023-43321 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-pc36-r7r4-c3rv (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

9.0EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan mitigationThe upstream fix is not in a release yet: until the release ships, restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation on your normal schedule at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high, then apply it (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • CISA's Vulnrichment rates exploitation as PoC; EchelonGraph holds no exploit-code reference for it
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.9%CVSS: 9.0Exploit: No code on recordExposed services: Not assessed

An upstream fix is merged but not yet released — mitigate (WAF / firewall / segmentation) until the release ships, then apply it.

A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in FileBrowser before v2.23.0 allows an authenticated attacker to escalate privileges to Administrator via user interaction with a crafted HTML file or URL.

CVSS v3
9.0
EG Score
9.0CRITICALmedium confidence
EG Risk
57
EG Risk 57/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity90% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 9.0 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation40% × 40%
EchelonGraph's fixed weight for EG-KEV Tier 3 (Elevated): a constant, not a probability.
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: no (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.
Exploitation public PoC (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: An upstream fix is merged but not yet in a tagged release. Until the release ships, restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation on your normal schedule at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high, then apply it.
EPSS PROB
0.9%
EPSS %ILE
59th
KEV
Not listed

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (9.0): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.0 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
9.0 CRITICALCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
0.9% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-11-01). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Track* at medium mission impactTrack at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.CISA BOD 26-04: 14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.No released fix is confirmed on this page, but CISA's timeline does not wait for a fix's release: it starts when an agency identifies the flaw on an asset and updates the CDM Agency and Federal Dashboard, and the directive counts patching, decommissioning the system or another action as remediation. Until a fixed release is applied, mitigate as this page's verdict says. In the directive's words, “Fix on system upgrade” means that, “unless conditions change”, the vulnerability “should be remediated the next time the vulnerable asset receives a scheduled major upgrade or rebuild”: its timelines are “dynamic as facts change”, and a KEV listing shortens them.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.

An upstream fix is merged but not yet in a tagged release. Until the release ships, restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation on your normal schedule at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high, then apply it.

Exploitation public PoC (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.

No released fix is confirmed on this page, but CISA's timeline does not wait for a fix's release: it starts when an agency identifies the flaw on an asset and updates the CDM Agency and Federal Dashboard, and the directive counts patching, decommissioning the system or another action as remediation. Until a fixed release is applied, mitigate as this page's verdict says. In the directive's words, “Fix on system upgrade” means that, “unless conditions change”, the vulnerability “should be remediated the next time the vulnerable asset receives a scheduled major upgrade or rebuild”: its timelines are “dynamic as facts change”, and a KEV listing shortens them.

The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

September 16, 2023

Last Modified

March 27, 2025

Advisory Details (3)

Auto-updated Jul 24, 2026
Upstream fix merged — awaiting tagged release. Sources: github_commit.
Web page

Potential XSS in FileBrowser leads to Admin account takeover in Filebrowser · Issue #2570 · filebrowser/filebrowser · GitHub

https://github.com/filebrowser/filebrowser/issues/2570
GitHub commit

commit b508ac3d4f7f (filebrowser/filebrowser)

Fix landed in filebrowser/filebrowser commit b508ac3d4f7f — awaiting tagged release

https://github.com/filebrowser/filebrowser/commit/b508ac3d4f7f0f75d6b49c99bdc661a6d2173f30
Web page

Stored XSS in FileBrowser leads to Admin account Takeover + RCE | febiNJ

https://febin0x4e4a.wordpress.com/2023/09/15/xss-in-filebrowser-leads-to-admin-account-takeover-in-filebrowser/

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 21× in last 7d / 74× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 94 of 261 refreshes on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. 6 repeat rows among the latest 100 are merged into the row they repeat. The 167 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-11-02 16:40 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 59th percentile
  2. 2026-11-02 01:32 UTCEG score recompute
  3. 2026-11-02 01:32 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-pc36-r7r4-c3rv · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.0
  4. 2026-11-01 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 59th percentile
  5. 2026-11-01 01:53 UTCEG score recompute
  6. 2026-11-01 01:53 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-pc36-r7r4-c3rv · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.0
  7. 2026-10-31 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 59th percentile
  8. 2026-10-31 02:14 UTCEG score recompute
  9. 2026-10-31 02:14 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-pc36-r7r4-c3rv · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.0
  10. 2026-10-30 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 59th percentile
  11. 2026-10-30 02:35 UTCEG score recompute
  12. 2026-10-30 02:35 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-pc36-r7r4-c3rv · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.0
  13. 2026-10-29 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 58th percentile
  14. 2026-10-29 02:56 UTCEG score recompute
  15. 2026-10-29 02:56 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-pc36-r7r4-c3rv · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.0
  16. 2026-10-28 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 58th percentile
  17. 2026-10-28 03:18 UTCEG score recompute
  18. 2026-10-28 03:18 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-pc36-r7r4-c3rv · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.0
  19. 2026-10-27 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 58th percentile
  20. 2026-10-27 03:29 UTCEG score recompute
  21. 2026-10-27 03:29 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-pc36-r7r4-c3rv · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.0
  22. 2026-10-26 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 58th percentile
  23. 2026-10-25 23:43 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-pc36-r7r4-c3rv · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.0
  24. 2026-10-25 17:37 UTCEG score recompute
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  1. 2026-10-24 23:50 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-10-24 23:50 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-pc36-r7r4-c3rv · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.0
  3. 2026-10-24 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 58th percentile
  4. 2026-10-24 00:12 UTCEG score recompute
  5. 2026-10-24 00:12 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-pc36-r7r4-c3rv · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.0
  6. 2026-10-23 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 58th percentile
  7. 2026-10-23 00:32 UTCEG score recompute
  8. 2026-10-23 00:32 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-pc36-r7r4-c3rv · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.0
  9. 2026-10-22 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 58th percentile
  10. 2026-10-22 00:53 UTCEG score recompute
  11. 2026-10-22 00:53 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-pc36-r7r4-c3rv · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.0
  12. 2026-10-21 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 58th percentile
  13. 2026-10-21 01:14 UTCEG score recompute
  14. 2026-10-21 01:14 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-pc36-r7r4-c3rv · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.0
  15. 2026-10-20 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 58th percentile
  16. 2026-10-20 01:35 UTCEG score recompute
  17. 2026-10-20 01:34 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-pc36-r7r4-c3rv · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.0
  18. 2026-10-19 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 58th percentile
  19. 2026-10-19 00:29 UTCEG score recompute
  20. 2026-10-19 00:29 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-pc36-r7r4-c3rv · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.0
  21. 2026-10-18 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 58th percentile
  22. 2026-10-18 07:54 UTCEG score recompute
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  24. 2026-10-18 00:48 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-pc36-r7r4-c3rv · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.0
  25. 2026-10-17 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 58th percentile
  26. 2026-10-17 01:08 UTCEG score recompute
  27. 2026-10-17 01:07 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-pc36-r7r4-c3rv · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.0
  28. 2026-10-16 16:36 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 58th percentile
  29. 2026-10-16 01:14 UTCEG score recompute
  30. 2026-10-16 01:14 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-pc36-r7r4-c3rv · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.0
  31. 2026-10-15 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 58th percentile
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  33. 2026-10-14 20:20 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-pc36-r7r4-c3rv · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.0
  34. 2026-10-14 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 58th percentile
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  36. 2026-10-13 16:35 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-pc36-r7r4-c3rv · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.0
  37. 2026-10-13 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 57th percentile
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  39. 2026-10-12 16:52 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-pc36-r7r4-c3rv · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.0
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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2023-39612?
CVE-2023-39612 is a critical-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on September 16, 2023. A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in FileBrowser before v2.23.0 allows an authenticated attacker to escalate privileges to Administrator via user interaction with a crafted HTML file or URL.
When was the CVE record for CVE-2023-39612 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2023-39612 was published on September 16, 2023. That is the record's publication date; the vulnerability itself may have been made public earlier. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of March 27, 2025; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2023-39612 actively exploited?
CVE-2023-39612 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (59th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2023-39612?
CVE-2023-39612 has a CVSS v3 base score of 9.0 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2023-39612?
An upstream fix for CVE-2023-39612 has been merged but is not yet in a tagged release. Until it ships, restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation, then update to the release that contains the fix.

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