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Critical · 10.0 CVE-2026-32760 EUVD-2026-13410GHSA-5gg9-5g7w-hm73GO-2026-4710

File Browser Self Registration Grants Any User Admin Access When Default Permissions Include Admin

Published Mar 19, 2026 · Updated Mar 25, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

File Browser is a file managing interface for uploading, deleting, previewing, renaming, and editing files within a specified directory. In versions 2.61.2 and below, any unauthenticated visitor can register a full administrator account when self-registration (signup = true) is enabled and the default user permissions have perm.admin = true. The signup handler blindly applies all default settings (including Perm.Admin) to the new user without any server-side guard that strips admin from self-registered accounts. The signupHandler is supposed to create unprivileged accounts for new visitors. It contains no explicit user.Perm.Admin = false reset after applying defaults. If an administrator (intentionally or accidentally) configures defaults.perm.admin = true and also enables signup, every account created via the public registration endpoint is an administrator with full control over all files, users, and server settings. This issue has been resolved in version 2.62.0.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
filebrowser filebrowser < 2.62.0 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Leap 16.0 govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20260723T184607-160000.1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:21483-1
openSUSE Leap 15.6 govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20260326T203309-150000.1.155.2 SUSE-SU-2026:1135-1

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go github.com/filebrowser/filebrowser all versions — GO-2026-4710
Go github.com/filebrowser/filebrowser/v2 < 2.62.0 2.62.0 GHSA-5gg9-5g7w-hm73

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