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CVE-2019-7861

HIGH

CVE-2019-7861 is a high-severity (CVSS 7.5) Unrestricted File Upload vulnerability in magento/community-edition. O3 Security confirms whether CVE-2019-7861 is actually reachable in your code before you act, and blocks exploitation at runtime until you patch.

Magento 2 Community Edition Unsafe File Upload

Also known asGHSA-j837-vm6w-6qcv
Published
Aug 2, 2019
Updated
Jul 8, 2026
Affected
3 pkgs
Patched
3 / 3
Exploits
None indexed

Blast Radius

3 pkgs affected
🐘magento/community-edition🐘magento/community-edition🐘magento/community-edition

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Description

Insufficient server-side validation of user input could allow an attacker to bypass file upload restrictions in Magento 2.1 prior to 2.1.18, Magento 2.2 prior to 2.2.9, Magento 2.3 prior to 2.3.2.

Affected Packages

3 total 3 fixed
EcosystemPackageVulnerable rangeFix
🐘Packagistmagento/community-edition2.1.0&&< 2.1.182.1.18
🐘Packagistmagento/community-edition2.2.0&&< 2.2.92.2.9
🐘Packagistmagento/community-edition2.3.0&&< 2.3.22.3.2

Detection & mitigation playbook

Open-source dependency
  1. Detect

    Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for magento/community-edition. O3's reachability analysis confirms whether the vulnerable code path is actually invoked in your application, so you act on real exposure instead of every transitive match.

  2. Fix

    Update magento/community-edition to 2.1.18 or later, then make sure no transitive (indirect) dependency still pins the vulnerable range — O3 confirms CVE-2019-7861 is resolved across your whole dependency graph.

  3. Workarounds

    If you can't upgrade right away: gate or disable the affected feature, validate untrusted input at the boundary, and avoid passing attacker-controlled data into the vulnerable path. O3's runtime protection blocks exploitation in production as an interim safeguard until the upgrade lands.

  4. How O3 protects you

    O3 pinpoints whether CVE-2019-7861 is reachable in your code and exactly where to fix it, then blocks exploitation in production at runtime until the patched version is deployed.

Tailored to CVE-2019-7861. Runtime protection reduces exposure until a permanent patch is applied and verified — it complements patching, it doesn't replace it.

Frequently Asked Questions

Insufficient server-side validation of user input could allow an attacker to bypass file upload restrictions in Magento 2.1 prior to 2.1.18, Magento 2.2 prior to 2.2.9, Magento 2.3 prior to 2.3.2.
O3 Security · Impact-Aware SCA

Is CVE-2019-7861 in your dependencies?

O3 detects CVE-2019-7861 across Packagist dependencies and uses function-level reachability to confirm whether the vulnerable code path is actually reachable — not just present. No false positives.