# CVE-2026-62843: File Browser: Archive builder turns backslash filenames into path traversal (zip-slip)

- Also known as: GO-2026-6026, GHSA-83XP-526H-J3WW
- Severity: CVSS 6.8 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 2.63.17
- Published: 2026-07-15 · Updated: 2026-07-15

## Affected

- filebrowser: from 2.63.6, fixed in 2.63.17
- github.com/filebrowser/filebrowser (Go): all versions
- github.com/filebrowser/filebrowser/v2 (Go): from 2.63.6, 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. From 2.63.6 to 2.63.16, File Browser's archive builder uses strings.ReplaceAll(nameInArchive, "\", "/"), which turns a POSIX filename such as ..\..\evil.sh into the archive entry ../../evil.sh, allowing a user with upload permission to plant a backslash-named file that escapes the extraction directory when another user downloads and extracts the generated zip or tar archive. 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-83xp-526h-j3ww
- https://github.com/filebrowser/filebrowser/commit/8503ba61ff51d48a7313896483d130eb6a5abfe0
- https://github.com/filebrowser/filebrowser/releases/tag/v2.63.17

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