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CVE-2026-55668: File Browser: ScopedFs follows a dangling symlink on write, letting a scoped user create files outside their scope

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 25/100)

The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.37% (FIRST EPSS).
Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. A low-privileged account is enough. No user action is required. Special conditions such as timing or configuration are required.
Fixed version: filebrowser filebrowser 2.63.16.

Low priority for now. Upgrade to filebrowser filebrowser 2.63.16 or later.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

File Browser provides a web file managing interface. Prior to 2.63.16, ScopedFs validates the nearest existing ancestor of a dangling symlink as in scope and then follows the symlink during file creation, allowing an authenticated user with Create and Modify permissions to create attacker-controlled files outside the user's scope. This issue is fixed in version 2.63.16.

MediumCVSS 6.3 · v3.1—No exploit Fix available

Path traversal

Published: Jul 8, 2026
Updated: Jul 8, 2026
EPSS: 0.3% · 31th percentile
CWE: CWE-22

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Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS: 25 / 40 · 6.3 / 10
CISA KEV: 0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS: 0 / 30 · 0.3%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation: proof of concept
Automatable: no
Technical impact: partial

Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.

CNA vs NVD score

NVD: —
CNA · GitHub_M: 6.3; NVD has not scored this yet; the score shown is the CNA’s.

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Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (GitHub_M). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

filebrowser filebrowser
- < 2.63.16affected

Package-level exposure

OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.

Ecosystem	Package	Affected range	Fix
Go	github.com/filebrowser/filebrowser	from 0	—
Go	github.com/filebrowser/filebrowser/v2	before 2.63.16	2.63.16

Same product

filebrowser: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

CVE-2026-32760File Browser Self Registration Grants Any User Admin Access When Default Permissions Include Admin
40Plan
CVE-2026-34528File Browser's Signup Grants Execution Permissions When Default Permissions Includes Execution
39Monitor
CVE-2026-72839filebrowser through 2.63.16 Privilege Escalation via Signup
37Monitor

Published before and after this one in the same product

← EarlierCVE-2026-54097Jun 25, 2026 · File Browser: Cross-user unauthorized share-link deletion via unbounded prefix match in DeleteWithPathPrefix
28Monitor
← EarlierCVE-2026-55667Jun 25, 2026 · File Browser: Out-of-scope file deletion by a Create-only scoped user via symlink-following RemoveAll in upload failure-cleanup
32Monitor
Later →CVE-2026-61874Jul 12, 2026 · filebrowser before 2.63.17 Stale Public Share via Trailing-Slash Delete
9Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

Product / package	Fixed version	Source
filebrowser filebrowser	2.63.16 · description	Vendor (CNA)
Go:github.com/filebrowser/filebrowser/v2	2.63.16	Package registry (OSV)

Exploit status

No known public exploit

No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.

Research context

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Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

No dated events beyond publication.

EPSS, last 120 days

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Patch and commit links

Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.

filebrowser/filebrowsercommit 64511ce

Credits

All researchers

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No credits in the CNA record.

Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

CVE-2026-5566713 days apartFile Browser: Out-of-scope file deletion by a Create-only scoped user via symlink-following RemoveAll in upload failure-cleanup
32Monitor
CVE-2026-5409413 days apartFile Browser: Symlink following lets scoped users read, overwrite, and share files outside their filebrowser scope
30Monitor
CVE-2026-628437 days apartFile Browser: Archive builder turns backslash filenames into path traversal (zip-slip)
27Monitor
CVE-2026-5409313 days apartFile Browser: Path traversal in download-as-zip/tar via Windows-style backslash separators in stored filenames
27Monitor
CVE-2026-32758111 days apartFile Browser has an Access Rule Bypass via Path Traversal in Copy/Rename Destination Parameter
26Monitor
CVE-2026-3560592 days apartFile Browser has an access rule bypass via HasPrefix without trailing separator in path matching
25Monitor

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

CVE-2026-5408913 days apartFile Browser: Authentication Bypass via Proxy Auth Header Forgery
36Monitor
CVE-2026-7283637 days apartFileBrowser before 2.63.19 Case Sensitivity Authentication Bypass
36Monitor
CVE-2026-8223651 days apartFile Browser 2.63.6 through 2.63.23 Share Link Exposure via File Deletion
9Monitor

Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).

Technical details

Attack conditions

Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
A low-privileged account is enough.
No user action is required.
Special conditions such as timing or configuration are required.

If successful

Confidentiality: none
Integrity: high · data or configuration can be modified
Availability: none

Impact can extend beyond the vulnerable component (scope changes).

Attack vector: Network
Attack complexity: High
Privileges required: Low
User interaction: None
Scope: Changed
Confidentiality impact: None
Integrity impact: High
Availability impact: None

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-22 · Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N

nvd-secondary

Root cause

A user-supplied file name is joined with the allowed directory, but the result is never checked to confirm it is still inside that directory.

The bug in code

The whole CWE-22 class

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

Vulnerable

1const file = path.join(ROOT, req.query.name);
2res.sendFile(file);

Fixed

1const file = path.resolve(ROOT, req.query.name);
2if (!file.startsWith(ROOT + path.sep)) {
3  return res.sendStatus(400);
4}
5res.sendFile(file);

Attack context

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Attack patterns (CAPEC)

ATT&CK techniques

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Change log

Fix✗ → ✓Sep 28, 2026, 10:47 PM UTC

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References

github.com/filebrowser/filebrowser/commit/64511ce45e3be379e965f7f4fb0929a068d5bb81

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