CVE-2025-52904
HighCVSS 8.0Exploitation Probability (EPSS)
Elevated risk69th percentile - higher than 69% of all known CVEs
Summary
File Browser in versions 2.x allows the execution of shell commands, which can lead to unauthorized access to files outside the user's assigned scope. This feature, if enabled, poses a serious security threat to data.
Risk Assessment
The organization risks unauthorized access to all files managed by the server, which could lead to data loss or modification by an attacker.
Recommendation
It is recommended to completely disable the 'Execute commands' feature for all accounts to minimize risk. Administrators should also ensure that this feature is disabled by default in the application's configuration.
Other vulnerabilities in File Browser 2.x
See all- CVE-2026-82236Low
File Browser versions from 2.63.6 through 2.63.23 fail to clean up public share links when a privileged user deletes another user's shared file. Attackers can access the surviving share link to retrieve new unrelated content uploaded to the same path without authentication.
- CVE-2026-72837High
File Browser versions before 2.63.20 fail to honor the createUserDir isolation in proxy and hook authentication auto-provisioning paths. Attackers with valid upstream-authenticated credentials can read, modify, delete, and share files belonging to other users by exploiting the server root scope assignment.
- CVE-2026-73612High
File Browser before v2.63.22 fails to validate access rules for descendants during recursive copy, rename, and delete operations, allowing authenticated users to bypass path-based access controls. Attackers can copy, rename, or delete denied files by operating on their allowed parent directory, defeating rule-based isolation for confidentiality and integrity.
- CVE-2026-55668Medium
A vulnerability in File Browser before version 2.63.16 allows an authenticated user with Create and Modify permissions to create attacker-controlled files outside the user's scope. The issue arises because ScopedFs validates the nearest existing ancestor of a dangling symlink as in scope and then follows the symlink during file creation.
- CVE-2026-54089Critical
File Browser is a file management interface that, starting from version 2.0.0-rc.1, allows unauthenticated attackers to impersonate users, including admins, by sending a forged HTTP header. No credentials are required to gain access.
- CVE-2026-54088Critical
File Browser prior to version 2.63.6 had a vulnerability in the Hook Authentication feature that allowed delegating login verification to an external shell command. User-supplied credentials were interpolated into this command string without sanitization, enabling remote attackers to execute arbitrary OS commands before any authentication.
- CVE-2026-62684Low
File Browser prior to 2.63.17 directly serializes the Link storage struct in sharePostHandler, shareListHandler, and shareGetsHandler, exposing password_hash and the bypass token in API responses. An administrator can retrieve these secrets for every user's shares, enabling offline password cracking and direct access to protected shares.
- CVE-2026-73611Medium
File Browser versions from 2.50.0 through 2.63.21 fail to validate JWT expiration when proxy authentication is configured with a non-default logout page. Attackers with a previously valid token can access protected routes and administrative endpoints indefinitely, and exchange expired tokens for fresh ones via the renewal endpoint.
- CVE-2026-62843Medium
A vulnerability in File Browser from version 2.63.6 to 2.63.16 allows a user with upload permission to plant a backslash-named file that escapes the extraction directory when another user downloads and extracts the generated archive. The issue stems from the use of strings.ReplaceAll(nameInArchive, "\", "/") in the archive builder, which turns a POSIX filename such as ..\..\evil.sh into the archive entry ../../evil.sh.
- CVE-2026-62685High
In File Browser before version 2.63.17, when Signup and CreateUserDir are enabled, the cleanUsername() function normalizes usernames in a way that can cause collisions (e.g., 'team/one', 'team one', and 'team-one' map to the same home directory). This allows a second registrant to gain full access to another user's files.
Original NVD description (English source)
File Browser provides a file managing interface within a specified directory and it can be used to upload, delete, preview, rename and edit files. In versions of the web application on the 2.x branch, all users have a scope assigned, and they only have access to the files within that scope. The Command Execution feature of Filebrowser allows the execution of shell commands which are not restricted to the scope, potentially giving an attacker read and write access to all files managed by the server. Until this issue is fixed, the maintainers recommend to completely disable `Execute commands` for all accounts. Since the command execution is an inherently dangerous feature that is not used by all deployments, it should be possible to completely disable it in the application's configuration. This feature has been disabled by default for all installations from v2.33.8 onwards, including for existent installations. To exploit this vulnerability, the instance administrator must turn on a feature and ignore all the warnings about known vulnerabilities.

