trace_cd1149a3884a4a6482155d477627f362

findercompleted100excellent

StartedApr 13, 2026, 5:21 PM

EndedApr 13, 2026, 5:23 PM

Casecase_1ff68966277c45e89eaaf7adfeec08c6

Modelopenai/gpt-5.4

Context

Blind label

blind_7e0242e685d6

Advisory

GHSA-v9w4-gm2x-6rvf • File Browser share links remain accessible after Share/Download permissions are revoked

Judge score

100 (excellent)

Rubric breakdown

Target Alignment

Source To Sink Reasoning

Impact And Exploitability

Evidence Quality

Overclaim Control

Prompt451 chars

Start from http/public.go, especially the public share access wrapper identified in the advisory, and compare it with the permission guard in http/share.go. This source file has a known vulnerability sink in it. Traverse the codebase and report the vulnerability. You can report multiple vulnerabilities. Ground the report in the exact request path, the user/share lookup flow, and the missing permission re-validation before serving public downloads.

OutputJSON

{
  "executiveSummary": "The public share download/listing flow in `http/public.go` loads a share link by hash and then resolves the share owner, but it never re-checks the owner's current `Share` and `Download` permissions before serving content. In contrast, share creation and management in `http/share.go` are guarded by `withPermShare`, which explicitly requires both permissions. As a result, a share link created while the owner had permission remains usable through `/api/public/share/{hash}` and `/api/public/dl/{hash}` even after the owner's `Share` or `Download` permission is later revoked.",
  "reports": [
    {
      "title": "Public share access does not re-validate owner's Share and Download permissions",
      "severity": "HIGH",
      "summary": "Requests to `/api/public/share/{hash}` and `/api/public/dl/{hash}` are handled through `withHashFile`, which retrieves the share by hash, authenticates optional share password/token, loads the owner user record, and serves the file/directory without verifying that the owner still has `Perm.Share` and `Perm.Download`. The intended policy is shown in `http/share.go`, where `withPermShare` blocks share operations unless both permissions are currently enabled.",
      "rootCauseAnalysis": "`http/public.go`'s `withHashFile` path performs `d.store.Share.GetByHash(id)`, `authenticateShareRequest`, and `d.store.Users.Get(..., link.UserID)`, then directly constructs `files.NewFileInfo` and dispatches to `publicShareHandler` or `publicDlHandler`. There is no check equivalent to `if !d.user.Perm.Share || !d.user.Perm.Download { return http.StatusForbidden, nil }`. Meanwhile, `http/share.go` defines `withPermShare` and applies it to share creation/listing/deletion, demonstrating that public sharing is supposed to require both `Share` and `Download` permissions. Because the public-serving path omits this validation, revoking those permissions from the share owner does not invalidate previously issued share links.",
      "impact": "An administrator who revokes a user's `Share` and/or `Download` permission may believe the user can no longer expose files, but any previously created public links remain functional. Anyone possessing the existing link hash (and password/token if configured) can continue listing shared directories and downloading files from the owner's filesystem scope. This causes persistent unauthorized disclosure after permission revocation.",
      "attackPath": "1. A user with `Perm.Share=true` and `Perm.Download=true` creates a share via the guarded `/api/share...` flow.\n2. The share record persists with `Hash`, `Path`, and `UserID`.\n3. Later, an administrator revokes the owner's `Share` or `Download` permission.\n4. An unauthenticated requester calls `/api/public/share/{hash}` or `/api/public/dl/{hash}`.\n5. `withHashFile` looks up the link via `Share.GetByHash`, authenticates only the share password/token, loads the owner with `Users.Get`, and serves the file through `files.NewFileInfo

Tool calls

(12)

$sed -n '1,240p' /workspace/http/public.go

package fbhttp

import (
	"errors"
	"net/http"
	"net/url"
	"path"
	"path/filepath"
	"strings"

	"github.com/spf13/afero"
	"golang.org/x/crypto/bcrypt"

$sed -n '1,260p' /workspace/http/share.go

package fbhttp

import (
	"crypto/rand"
	"encoding/base64"
	"encoding/json"
	"errors"
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
	"sort"
	"strconv"
	"strings"

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$find /workspace -maxdepth 2 -type f | sed -n '1,200p'

/workspace/.dockerignore
/workspace/.git
/workspace/.github/CODEOWNERS
/workspace/.github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md
/workspace/.gitignore
/workspace/.golangci.yml
/workspace/.goreleaser.yml
/workspace/.versionrc
/workspace/CHANGELOG.md
/workspace/CODE-OF-CONDUCT.md
/workspace/CONTRIBUTING.md
/workspace/Dockerfile

$sed -n '1,240p' /workspace/http/http.go

package fbhttp

import (
	"io/fs"
	"net/http"

	"github.com/gorilla/mux"

	"github.com/filebrowser/filebrowser/v2/settings"
	"github.com/filebrowser/filebrowser/v2/storage"
)

$sed -n '1,220p' /workspace/users/permissions.go

package share

type CreateBody struct {
	Password string `json:"password"`
	Expires  string `json:"expires"`
	Unit     string `json:"unit"`
}

// Link is the information needed to build a shareable link.
type Link struct {
	Hash         string `json:"hash" storm:"id,index"`
	Path         string `json:"path" storm:"index"`

$sed -n '1,220p' /workspace/share/share.go

package fbhttp

import (
	"log"
	"net/http"
	"strconv"

	"github.com/tomasen/realip"

	"github.com/filebrowser/filebrowser/v2/rules"
	"github.com/filebrowser/filebrowser/v2/runner"
	"github.com/filebrowser/filebrowser/v2/settings"

$sed -n '1,240p' /workspace/http/data.go

package users

// Permissions describe a user's permissions.
type Permissions struct {
	Admin    bool `json:"admin"`
	Execute  bool `json:"execute"`
	Create   bool `json:"create"`
	Rename   bool `json:"rename"`
	Modify   bool `json:"modify"`
	Delete   bool `json:"delete"`
	Share    bool `json:"share"`
	Download bool `json:"download"`

$sed -n '1,260p' /workspace/http/public_test.go

package fbhttp

import (
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
	"net/http/httptest"
	"path/filepath"
	"testing"

	"github.com/asdine/storm/v3"
	"github.com/spf13/afero"

$sed -n '1,260p' /workspace/users/users.go

package users

import (
	"path/filepath"

	"github.com/spf13/afero"

	fberrors "github.com/filebrowser/filebrowser/v2/errors"
	"github.com/filebrowser/filebrowser/v2/files"
	"github.com/filebrowser/filebrowser/v2/rules"
)

$sed -n '1,260p' /workspace/http/raw.go

package fbhttp

import (
	"errors"
	"io/fs"
	"log"
	"net/http"
	"net/url"
	gopath "path"
	"path/filepath"
	"strings"

Step spans

(6)