CVE-2026-54089

File Browser: Authentication Bypass via Proxy Auth Header Forgery

State
Published
Severity
9.1 Critical
Published
Jun 25, 2026
Updated
Jun 25, 2026
Reserved
Jun 11, 2026

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Description

File Browser is a file managing interface for uploading, deleting, previewing, renaming, and editing files within a specified directory. Starting with 2.0.0-rc.1, when FileBrowser is configured with proxy authentication (auth.method=proxy), any unauthenticated attacker who can reach the server directly can impersonate any user - including admin - by sending a single forged HTTP header. No credentials are required. Additionally, specifying a non-existent username causes the server to automatically create a new user account, providing an account creation primitive with no authorization. This is an already known issue that has been documented in the documentation for several years, but has not been documented as a vulnerability before.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.19.1 CriticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:NGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • CWE-287 Improper Authentication
  • CWE-290 Authentication Bypass by Spoofing

Affected Products

ProductVersions
filebrowserfilebrowser
  • >= 2.0.0-rc.1Affected

References

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