CVE-2025-53826: Github.com/filebrowser/filebrowser File Browser’s Insecure JWT Handling Vulnerability

{
  "schema_version" : "1.4.0",
  "id" : "GHSA-7xwp-2cpp-p8r7",
  "modified" : "2025-07-29T23:17:56Z",
  "published" : "2025-07-16T14:09:28Z",
  "aliases" : [ "CVE-2025-53826" ],
  "summary" : "File Browser’s insecure JWT handling can lead to session replay attacks after logout",
  "details" : "### Summary\n\nFile Browser’s authentication system issues long-lived JWT tokens that remain valid even after the user logs out. Please refer to the CWE's listed in this report for further reference and system standards. In summary, the main issue is:\n\n- Tokens remain valid after logout (session replay attacks)\n\nIn this report, I used docker as the documentation instruct:\n\n```\ndocker run \\\n    -v filebrowser_data:/srv \\\n    -v filebrowser_database:/database \\\n    -v filebrowser_config:/config \\\n    -p 8080:80 \\\n    filebrowser/filebrowser\n```\n\n### Details\n\n**Issue: Tokens remain valid after logout (session replay attacks)**\n\nAfter logging in and receiving a JWT token, the user can explicitly \"log out.\" However, this action does not invalidate the issued JWT. Any captured token can be replayed post-logout until it expires naturally. The backend does not track active sessions or invalidate existing tokens on logout. Login request:\n\n```\nPOST /api/login HTTP/1.1\nHost: machine.local:8090\nContent-Length: 69\n\n{\"username\":\"admin\",\"password\":\"password-here\",\"recaptcha\":\"\"}\n```\n\nThe check found in the code `https://github.com/filebrowser/filebrowser/blob/master/http/auth.go` is not enough. There is no server-side blacklist or token invalidation on logout. Token renewal and validity only depends on expiry and user store timestamps:\n\n```\nexpired := !tk.VerifyExpiresAt(time.Now().Add(time.Hour), true)\nupdated := tk.IssuedAt != nil && tk.IssuedAt.Unix() < d.store.Users.LastUpdate(tk.User.ID)\n```\n\n### PoC\n\n**Issue: Tokens remain valid after logout (session replay attacks)**\n\n- Login and capture the generate JWT. Eg. the http request:\n\n```\nPOST /api/login HTTP/1.1\nHost: machine.local:8090\nContent-Length: 69\n\n{\"username\":\"admin\",\"password\":\"password-here\",\"recaptcha\":\"\"}\n```\n\n- Logout in the dashboard. And then try to use the old generated JWT to access any authenticated endpoint eg:\n\n```\nGET /api/resources HTTP/1.1\nHost: machine.local:8090\nUser-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/138.0.0.0 Safari/537.36\nX-Auth: Old-JWT-token-here\nContent-Length: 173\nAccept: */*\nReferer: http://machine.local:8090/files/\nAccept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br\nAccept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.9\nContent-Length: 26\n\nConnection: keep-alive\n```\n\n### Impact\n\n- A valid JWT remains active after user logout.\n- If stolen, tokens persist access indefinitely until expiry.\n- Violates OWASP Top 10 A2:2021 - Broken Authentication.\n\n### Recommendations\n\n- Read all CWE's attached in this report\n- Invalidate JWTs on logout via session store / token blacklist.\n- Reduce JWT ExpiresAt where possible or use short-lived + refresh tokens.",
  "severity" : [ {
    "type" : "CVSS_V4",
    "score" : "CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P"
  } ],
  "affected" : [ {
    "package" : {
      "ecosystem" : "Go",
      "name" : "github.com/filebrowser/filebrowser"
    },
    "ranges" : [ {
      "type" : "ECOSYSTEM",
      "events" : [ {
        "introduced" : "0"
      }, {
        "last_affected" : "2.39.0"
      } ]
    } ]
  }, {
    "package" : {
      "ecosystem" : "Go",
      "name" : "github.com/filebrowser/filebrowser/v2"
    },
    "ranges" : [ {
      "type" : "ECOSYSTEM",
      "events" : [ {
        "introduced" : "0"
      }, {
        "last_affected" : "2.39.0"
      } ]
    } ]
  } ],
  "references" : [ {
    "type" : "WEB",
    "url" : "https://github.com/filebrowser/filebrowser/security/advisories/GHSA-7xwp-2cpp-p8r7"
  }, {
    "type" : "ADVISORY",
    "url" : "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-53826"
  }, {
    "type" : "WEB",
    "url" : "https://github.com/filebrowser/filebrowser/issues/5216"
  }, {
    "type" : "PACKAGE",
    "url" : "https://github.com/filebrowser/filebrowser"
  } ],
  "database_specific" : {
    "cwe_ids" : [ "CWE-305", "CWE-384", "CWE-613" ],
    "severity" : "HIGH",
    "github_reviewed" : true,
    "github_reviewed_at" : "2025-07-16T14:09:28Z",
    "nvd_published_at" : "2025-07-15T18:15:24Z"
  }
}