--- title: "TYPO3-CORE-SA-2015-005: Information Disclosure possibility exploitable by Editors" url: "https://news.typo3.com/security/advisory/typo3-core-sa-2015-005" description: It has been discovered, that editors could list all files and folders in the root directory of a TYPO3 installation. image: "https://news.typo3.com/_assets/d1e01514e4c4a5b3147940fa2ec50682/Images/og-image-news.jpg" date: 2026-06-11 modified: 2026-06-11 categories: - "Product Updates & Roadmap" - TYPO3 CMS --- # TYPO3-CORE-SA-2015-005: Information Disclosure possibility exploitable by Editors - [Product Updates & Roadmap](https://news.typo3.com/article/category/product-updates-roadmap) - Security / [TYPO3 CMS](https://news.typo3.com/article/category/security/typo3-cms) TYPO3-CORE-SA-2015-005: Information Disclosure possibility exploitable by Editors ================================================================================= 01 July 2015 ![A laptop screen displaying a list of security advisories](https://news.typo3.com/typo3temp/assets/_processed_/d/c/csm_security_blog_default_77f8e86036.webp) It has been discovered, that editors could list all files and folders in the root directory of a TYPO3 installation. - ![](https://news.typo3.com/typo3temp/assets/t3g/blog/gravatar/7569d41262328e5ed8d27b53e03970ec.png)[Helmut Hummel](https://news.typo3.com/article/author/helmut-hummel) **Component Type:** TYPO3 CMS **Release Date:** July 1, 2015 **Vulnerable subcomponent:** Filelist Module (ext:filelist, ext:core) **Vulnerability Type:** Information Disclosure **Affected Versions:** Versions 6.2.0 to 6.2.13, 7.0.0 to 7.3.0 **Severity:** Low **Suggested CVSS v2.0:** [AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N/E:F/RL:OF/RC:C](http://nvd.nist.gov/cvss.cfm?version=2&vector=(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N/E:F/RL:OF/RC:C)) **CVE:** not assigned yet **Problem Description:** It has been discovered, that editors with access to the file list module could list all files names and folder names in the root directory of a TYPO3 installation. Modification of files, listing further nested directories or retrieving file contents was not possible. A valid backend user account is needed to exploit this vulnerability. **Solution:** Update to TYPO3 versions 6.2.14 or 7.3.1 that fix the problem described. **Credits:** Thanks to Helmut Hummel who discovered and reported the issue. **General Advice:** Follow the recommendations that are given in the [TYPO3 Security Guide](http://docs.typo3.org/typo3cms/SecurityGuide/ "Opens external link in new window"). Please subscribe to the [typo3-announce](http://lists.typo3.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/typo3-announce) mailing list. **General Note:** All security related code changes are tagged so that you can easily look them up on our [review system](https://review.typo3.org/#/q/status:merged+project:Packages/TYPO3.CMS+topic:security,n,z). --- **Document Changes** - 2020-10-08 by Oliver Hader: changed vulnerable component from "backend" to "filelist", adjusted problem description ![](https://news.typo3.com/typo3temp/assets/t3g/blog/gravatar/bb9efc51bced8582e7b8c235f4b5f2b5.png) About the Author [Helmut Hummel](https://news.typo3.com/article/author/helmut-hummel) [More posts by this author](https://news.typo3.com/article/author/helmut-hummel)