Medium severity · published Aug 14, 2026
CVE-2026-72834
filebrowser before 2.63.19 Permission Bypass via checksum
4.3
CVSS
0.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
filebrowser before 2.63.19 contains a permission bypass in the /api/resources endpoint. The checksum (?checksum=) branch of resourceGetHandler reads the entire file to compute a digest and returns it without performing a Perm.Download check (unlike the sibling raw, preview, and subtitle paths). As a result, an authenticated user provisioned with Perm.Download=false can obtain a content-hash oracle for any same-scope file (md5/sha1/sha256/sha512), enabling confirmation of known/guessed content, change detection, and offline brute-force of low-entropy files. This is an incomplete fix of CVE-2026-35606; it bypasses only the Download permission and does not defeat scope/path authorization.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.4% · higher than 33% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
FI
filebrowser · filebrowser
before 2.63.19 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-72834
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72834
github.com
https://github.com/filebrowser/filebrowser/commit/b7dc392838f11d188f0bc0f2a1a99fad3f7dca03
github.com
https://github.com/filebrowser/filebrowser/security/advisories/GHSA-7whw-q6gh-xr59
www.vulncheck.com
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/filebrowser-before-permission-bypass-via-checksum
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