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CVE-2019-8140 — community-edition

MEDIUM

CVE-2019-8140 is a medium-severity (CVSS 4.9) Unrestricted File Upload vulnerability in magento/community-edition. A fix is available for magento/community-edition — see the affected versions and patch details below.

Magento Unrestricted file upload vulnerability

Also known asGHSA-7pr3-34rg-g53m
Published
Updated
Affected
2 pkgs
Patched
2 / 2
Exploits
None indexed
Exploitation data as of Oct 25, 2026 · OSV.dev, NVD, FIRST.org (EPSS)

EPSS Exploitation Probability

via FIRST.org ↗
0.8%probability of exploitation in next 30 days
Lower Risk0.00%
Lower risk than most CVEs55th percentile — riskier than 55% of all scored CVEsHighest risk
0.00%0.42%0.84%1.26%0.2%0.8%Apr 26Aug 26Oct 26

Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.

How urgent is this, really

Where this sits among everything scored

Real-World Exposure

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

Real-time download stats are indexed for npm and PyPI packages. This vulnerability affects Packagist packages — download data is not available via public APIs for these ecosystems.

Description

An unrestricted file upload vulnerability exists in Magento 2.2 prior to 2.2.10, Magento 2.3 prior to 2.3.3 or 2.3.2-p1. An authenticated admin user can manipulate the Synchronization feature in the Media File Storage of the database to transform uploaded JPEG file into a PHP file.

Affected Packages

2 total 2 fixed
EcosystemPackageVulnerable rangeFix
🐘Packagistmagento/community-edition≥ 2.2.0&&< 2.2.102.2.10composer require magento/community-edition:^2.2.10
🐘Packagistmagento/community-edition≥ 2.3.0&&< 2.3.32.3.3composer require magento/community-edition:^2.3.3

Affected Products

1 product · 6 configurations
Application
magentomagento
≥ 2.3.0 && < 2.3.2
1 version
2.3.2

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, including transitive dependencies — a direct dependency you never call can still pull in a vulnerable version.

  2. Fix

    Update magento/community-edition to 2.2.10 or later, then make sure no transitive (indirect) dependency still pins the vulnerable range — O3 confirms CVE-2019-8140 is resolved across your whole dependency graph.

  3. Workarounds

    Treat uploaded files as untrusted until proven otherwise: validate the actual content type rather than the supplied extension, store uploads outside the web root on a volume mounted without execute permission, and rename them to server-generated identifiers so an attacker cannot choose the path a request will later resolve.

Frequently Asked Questions

An unrestricted file upload vulnerability exists in Magento 2.2 prior to 2.2.10, Magento 2.3 prior to 2.3.3 or 2.3.2-p1. An authenticated admin user can manipulate the Synchronization feature in the Media File Storage of the database to transform uploaded JPEG file into a PHP file.
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CVE-2019-8140: community-edition — Fixed in 2.2.10