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High · 8.1 CVE-2026-62685 EUVD-2026-44708GHSA-7rc3-g7h6-22m7GO-2026-6024

File Browser: Colliding username normalization gives two users the same home directory

Published Jul 15, 2026 · Updated Jul 20, 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. Prior to 2.63.17, File Browser builds new user scopes from usernames passed through cleanUsername() when Signup=true and CreateUserDir=true, but the many-to-one normalization can collapse usernames such as team/one, team one, and team-one to the same home directory without checking whether the resulting scope is already taken, allowing a second registrant to gain full read and write access to another user's files. This issue is fixed in version 2.63.17.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
filebrowser filebrowser < 2.63.17 —

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

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go github.com/filebrowser/filebrowser all versions — GO-2026-6024
Go github.com/filebrowser/filebrowser/v2 < 2.63.17 2.63.17 GHSA-7rc3-g7h6-22m7

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