CVE-2026-55667: File Browser: Out-of-scope file deletion by a Create-only scoped user via symlink-following RemoveAll in upload failure-cleanup
A scoped, non-admin File Browser user holding only the Create permission can delete arbitrary files outside their scope (other tenants’ data, and the application’s own database) via the upload failure-cleanup path. This is an incomplete fix of CVE-2026-54094: the v2.63.14 ScopedFs containment wrapper was applied to read/write/list/rename but NOT to the delete path. Confidentiality is preserved (reads stay blocked); integrity and availability are not.
ScopedFs.RemoveAll is the one dereferencing operation that skips the symlink guard every other method enforces. The direct-upload handler runs RemoveAll on the user-controlled path during failed-upload cleanup, gated only by Perm.Create. If an escaping directory symlink already exists inside the user’s scope, an authenticated create-only user can delete an out-of-scope target, bypassing both the ScopedFs boundary and the Perm.Delete gate.
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