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CVE-2026-55499
MEDIUM

Cloudreve: Broken Access Control in file event stream: a single-file share recipient is subscribed to the owner's parent folder and receives activity events for unshared siblings

Published Jul 31, 2026 · Updated Nov 3, 2026

Severity · CVSSMEDIUM · Not scored
Known exploitationNot listed
EPSS / likelihood0.33%
QFinch risk scoreNot available

Original summary

Normalized public record · Updated Nov 3, 2026

Cloudreve: Broken Access Control in file event stream: a single-file share recipient is subscribed to the owner's parent folder and receives activity events for unshared siblings

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QFinch assessment

## Summary

Technical context

Root cause (verified at 26b6b10) 1. Events route — authenticated, feature-flagged, no share-scope check (routers/router.go): EventHubEnabled defaults true (inventory/setting.go: "fseventpushenabled":"1"). 2. Service subscribes to the listed parent's ID (service/explorer/events.go): 3. Single-file share Root swaps the share root to the owner parent (sharenavigator.go): 4. To returns that parent for the bare root URI (sharenavigator.go): The bare root share URI has zero path elements (URI.Elements() returns nil for path /), so the len(elements)==1 guard is skipped and To returns the parent folder. dbfs.List returns that as parent, so parent.ID() is the owner parent folder's real ID. 5. Children masks the broader parent — for singleFileShare it returns only []File{sharedFile}, so the recipient's listing shows just the shared file even though the subscribed topic is the whole parent. 6. Publication fans out to ancestor topics with only a client-ID filter (dbfs/events.go): relativePath trims the changed file's owner path by the subscribed root's owner path, yielding the sibling's name (e.g. /Secret-Plan.pdf). No check that the subscriber is authorized for the changed file or within their share scope. Validation performed Independent validation against commit 26b6b10 in a clean sandbox. Source-verified (static): all of (1)–(6) confirmed verbatim, including the negative direction (an explicit …/shared.txt URI resolves to the file, and oss/qiniu-style flows are irrelevant here). Dynamic (control-flow executed): the full binary is not buildable offline (modules behind an unreachable proxy, embedded frontend, DB/eventhub). The reseacher ran two harnesses: - A net/url-based check of the linchpin — the bare root share URI yields 0 path elements (so To returns the parent), while …/shared.txt yields 1 (returns the file). This is the subtle point on which the whole finding turns, and it holds. - A model of Root/To/getEligibleSubscriber/relativePath driving the end-to-end flow: Steps to reproduce 1. Owner shares a single file shared.txt from /docs, which also contains Secret-Plan.pdf. 2. Recipient (logged-in, Files.Read, with the share password if any) opens the event stream on the share root: 4. The recipient's stream receives, e.g.: Expected: the recipient only receives events for the shared file. Actual: the recipient receives activity events for unshared siblings in the owner's parent folder. Impact A single-file share recipient gains a real-time feed of file-activity metadata for the owner's parent folder — sibling names, operation types, and rename targets they were never granted access to. No file contents are exposed. Remediation - For single-file shares, subscribe to the shared file's ID, or reject event subscriptions on the single-file share root view. - Store an authorization scope (navigator/share root) per subscriber and publish only events whose path stays within that scope. - Incorporate user/share scope into topic keys, not just file ID + client ID. - On subscriber reactivation, re-verify the requester still matches the subscriber and is authorized for the topic.

Evidence: public source records

Affected products

Affected scope reported by the available public evidence
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Remediation

Apply the vendor-supported fixed release or mitigation, then verify the affected component is no longer reachable.

  1. Confirm the affected product and reachable code path exist in your environment.
  2. Apply the vendor-supported patch or mitigation from the primary advisory.
  3. Rescan the exact deployed revision and retain verification evidence.
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Evidence coverage

FIRST-EPSSCVE-LIST-V5
SSVC priority
LOW
Confidence
Not available
Aliases
None reported

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Sources and record history

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Record history

Published Jul 31, 2026 · Last refreshed Nov 3, 2026