GHSA-5ww9-jg6q-38r7
File Browser: Cross-user unauthorized share-link deletion via unbounded prefix match in DeleteWithPathPrefix
Packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| Go | github.com/filebrowser/filebrowser | <= 1.11.0 | no fix listed |
| Go | github.com/filebrowser/filebrowser/v2 | < 2.63.6 | 2.63.6 |
Details
As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).
### Summary
A low-privileged authenticated user of filebrowser (with `create` + `delete` permissions in their own isolated scope) can silently destroy share-link records belonging to any other user — including the administrator — by performing a legitimate DELETE on a file in their own directory whose logical path happens to be a byte-prefix of another user's stored `share.Link.Path`. The file contents of the victim are not exposed, but the victim's share links are irrevocably wiped.
### Details
`resourceDeleteHandler` in `http/resource.go` cleans up any share records that reference a deleted file by calling:
```go
// http/resource.go
err = d.store.Share.DeleteWithPathPrefix(file.Path)
```
`file.Path` here is the *logical* path from the URL of the deleting user's request (e.g. `/a`), not the absolute filesystem path. It is passed as-is to the bolt backend:
```go
// storage/bolt/share.go
func (s shareBackend) DeleteWithPathPrefix(pathPrefix string) error {
var links []share.Link
if err := s.db.Prefix("Path", pathPrefix, &links); err != nil {
return err
}
for _, link := range links {
err = errors.Join(err, s.db.DeleteStruct(&share.Link{Hash: link.Hash}))
}
return err
}
```
**Why the design contradicts this behavior.** `share.Link` carries a `UserID` field and the application elsewhere treats shares as per-user owned resources. `shareDeleteHandler` explicitly enforces `link.UserID != d.user.ID && !d.user.Perm.Admin → 403`. The file-deletion side-effect path is the only location that bypasses this rule.
### Impact
- Integrity: unauthorized deletion of share-link metadata belonging to arbitrary users, including administrators.
- Availability: effective denial-of-service of the share-link feature — a cooperating (or malicious) low-priv user can wipe the bulk of existing share links by iterating a short set of one- and two-character prefixes.
References
External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.
- https://github.com/filebrowser/filebrowser/security/advisories/GHSA-5ww9-jg6q-38r7
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-54097
- https://github.com/filebrowser/filebrowser/commit/0231b7ebdfbe77a6c54027d30c4856c3fd81ee4d
- https://github.com/filebrowser/filebrowser
- https://github.com/filebrowser/filebrowser/releases/tag/v2.63.6