Security readout for executives and security teams
Plain-English summary
Froxlor 2.3.7 can expose password hashes and two-factor authentication secrets to an authenticated API user permitted to call affected endpoints. Stolen hashes may be cracked offline, while exposed TOTP seeds can produce valid verification codes. Together, these disclosures could enable hosting-panel or hosted-resource takeover.
Executive priority
Treat as an urgent credential-exposure incident for any affected deployment. Upgrade promptly, determine who could call the vulnerable APIs, review historical access, and rotate potentially disclosed credentials and TOTP secrets. Prioritize internet-accessible or multi-administrator hosting environments because compromise could affect both the control panel and hosted resources.
Technical view
Affected customer, administrator, and FTP API get/listing commands return full database rows without removing password and data_2fa fields. Exploitation requires authenticated API access and permission for an affected endpoint. The flaw is remotely reachable, needs no victim interaction, and crosses authorization boundaries by exposing credentials belonging to other accounts.
Likely exposure
Froxlor deployments running version 2.3.7 before 2.3.8 are exposed when authenticated API callers can access the affected Customers, Admins, or Ftps get/listing commands. Risk depends on API enablement, caller permissions, and whether those endpoints were invoked. The supplied evidence does not identify exposed installations.
Exploitation context
The supplied sources do not establish active exploitation, and the CVE is not listed as KEV in the bundle. Abuse nevertheless has serious consequences because disclosed password hashes support offline cracking and disclosed TOTP seeds remain usable until two-factor authentication is reset.
Researcher notes
CVSS 3.1 is 9.0: network-accessible, low-complexity exploitation with high privileges, no user interaction, changed scope, and high confidentiality and integrity impact. CWE-200 applies. The evidence supports credential and TOTP-secret disclosure, but does not establish public exploitation, affected-installation counts, or compromise indicators.
Mitigation direction
- Upgrade Froxlor to version 2.3.8 or later.
- Reset TOTP enrollment for potentially exposed administrator and customer accounts.
- Rotate potentially exposed administrator, customer, and FTP passwords.
- Review and restrict permissions for callers allowed to use affected API endpoints.
- Revoke or rotate API credentials if unauthorized access is suspected.
Validation and detection
- Confirm the deployed Froxlor version is 2.3.8 or later.
- Inventory accounts and integrations permitted to call the affected API commands.
- Review API and authentication logs for unexpected access to affected endpoints.
- Verify potentially exposed passwords and TOTP enrollments were rotated.
- Confirm affected responses no longer contain password or data_2fa fields.
Public sources used
Generated from the cited source records. This long-tail analysis has not been individually reviewed by a named human.
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CWE-200: Information exposure and cloud metadata lookup
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Open ATT&CK lookup- Severity
- Critical
- CVSS
- 9 (3.1)
- Known Exploited
- No
- Published
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L
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CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L2.36GitHub_MVulnerability scoring details
Base CVSS 3.1 score
9CriticalVector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L
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Source materials
- CVE List V5 sourceCVE List V5
- https://github.com/froxlor/froxlor/security/advisories/GHSA-7788-ghfq-c6mhCVE reference, GitHub_M · x_refsource_CONFIRM
- https://github.com/froxlor/froxlor/commit/52a43fb826bb9a058faf9c39feeef7ac4444cebaCVE reference, GitHub_M · x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/froxlor/froxlor/commit/8667fa3a4d77d6e322b7b8f7b9edbc1613ab5797CVE reference, GitHub_M · x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/froxlor/froxlor/releases/tag/2.3.8CVE reference, GitHub_M · x_refsource_MISC
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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
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