CVE-2025-52904: high-severity vulnerability in filebrowser
File Browser: Command Execution not Limited to Scope
Published · Updated
E-mail alert when it lands in KEV, gets a public PoC or its score goes up.
21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 8epss 1.1%
File Browser provides a file managing interface within a specified directory and it can be used to upload, delete, preview, rename and edit files. In versions of the web application on the 2.x branch, all users have a scope assigned, and they only have access to the files within that scope. The Command Execution feature of Filebrowser allows the execution of shell commands which are not restricted to the scope, potentially giving an attacker read and write access to all files managed by the server. Until this issue is fixed, the maintainers recommend to completely disable `Execute commands` for all accounts. Since the command execution is an inherently dangerous feature that is not used by all deployments, it should be possible to completely disable it in the application's configuration. This feature has been disabled by default for all installations from v2.33.8 onwards, including for existent installations. To exploit this vulnerability, the instance administrator must turn on a feature and ignore all the warnings about known vulnerabilities.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
filebrowser · filebrowserRelated CVEs — filebrowser
In the same product, most dangerous first.
CVE-2026-35585HIGHFile Browser has a Command Injection via Hook RunnerEPSS 2.0%CVE-2026-32759MEDIUMFile Browser TUS Negative Upload-Length Fires Post-Upload Hooks PrematurelyEPSS 2.0%CVE-2025-52903HIGHFile Browser Allows Execution of Shell Commands That Can Spawn Other CommandsEPSS 1.2%CVE-2026-54088CRITICALFile Browser: Command Injection via Authentication Hook Shell Substitution (Pre-Authentication RCE)EPSS 0.8%CVE-2026-32760CRITICALFile Browser Self Registration Grants Any User Admin Access When Default Permissions Include AdminEPSS 0.7%CVE-2026-34528HIGHFile Browser's Signup Grants Execution Permissions When Default Permissions Includes ExecutionEPSS 0.7%
References
https://github.com/filebrowser/filebrowser/issues/5199https://github.com/filebrowser/filebrowser/security/advisories/GHSA-hc8f-m8g5-8362https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/distrolesshttps://github.com/sbaresearch/advisories/tree/public/2025/SBA-ADV-20250326-01_Filebrowser_Command_Execution_Not_Limited_To_Scopehttps://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2025-3793https://sloonz.github.io/posts/sandboxing-1