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Medium · 5.9 CVE-2026-77427 EUVD-2026-101679

FileRise: Insecure default cryptographic key fallback in manual installs

Published Oct 14, 2026 · Updated Oct 20, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

FileRise is a self-hosted web-based file manager with multi-file upload, editing, and batch operations. From 3.9.0 until 3.22.0, pristine manual FileRise installations without PERSISTENT_TOKENS_KEY or metadata/persistent_tokens.key can activate a published legacy compatibility key. If an attacker separately obtains ciphertext-bearing account or configuration files, the known fallback key can enable decryption of TOTP secrets or credentials. Docker installations already generated a unique persistent key, and existing installations are not automatically rotated because doing so could make encrypted state unreadable. This issue is fixed in version 3.22.0.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
error311 FileRise >= 3.9.0, < 3.22.0 —

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