# CVE-2026-62685: File Browser: Colliding username normalization gives two users the same home directory

- Also known as: GO-2026-6024, GHSA-7RC3-G7H6-22M7
- Severity: CVSS 8.1 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 2.63.17
- Published: 2026-07-15 · Updated: 2026-07-20

## Affected

- filebrowser: fixed in 2.63.17
- github.com/filebrowser/filebrowser (Go): all versions
- github.com/filebrowser/filebrowser/v2 (Go): fixed in 2.63.17

## 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.

## 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 (2.63.17) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/filebrowser/filebrowser/security/advisories/GHSA-7rc3-g7h6-22m7
- https://github.com/filebrowser/filebrowser/commit/883a36f02fcb69566a8628cb47f18fdc73348387
- https://github.com/filebrowser/filebrowser/releases/tag/v2.63.17

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