v0.333.0 (unreleased): the R-1155 check reads every token source FileBrowser reads, Basic auth included (security review)
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@@ -7,13 +7,16 @@ claim answer the agent already gives). No golden (`09` §3 decision 250). Task:
one-sign-in user's FileBrowser token (HS256 JWT; claims `belongsTo`, `Permissions{admin,…}`, `iat`, `exp` 2 h, `iss`
— no user name) still opened `/api/users?id=self` (200) after the dashboard sign-out, as a cookie and as a Bearer
header. The forwardAuth answer (`ServeFilesAuth`) now refuses a request that has NO valid files cookie but carries a
NON-admin FileBrowser token — in the `filebrowser_quantum_jwt` cookie, an `Authorization: Bearer` header or the
`auth` query parameter — exactly like a stale files cookie: both cookies cleared, a browser sent to the dashboard
NON-admin FileBrowser token — anywhere FileBrowser 1.5.6 reads one (`backend/http/auth.go` `extractToken`): the
`filebrowser_quantum_jwt` cookie, the `auth` query parameter, `Authorization: Bearer` (split on a space, as FileBrowser
does) and `Authorization: Basic` with the token as the PASSWORD (the commit's security review found Basic missing
from the first version, c809dd3; never released) — exactly like a stale files cookie: both cookies cleared, a browser sent to the dashboard
(`/__files/open`, which re-issues the pass while the session lives), anything else 401. `admin`'s token (the password
fallback) and FileBrowser's sign-in page still pass; an unreadable token passes on to FileBrowser, which refuses it.
The signature is not checked here and need not be: this check can only refuse. `carriesNonAdminFileBrowserToken`;
`TestFilesSSO_R1155_HouseholdTokenDiesWithTheSignOut` — red-proved both ways: without the check the household's
token alone passes after the sign-out (200); with every token refused, admin's own token gets 302.
token alone passes after the sign-out (200); without the Basic branch the token as a Basic password passes (200); with
every token refused, admin's own token gets 302.
- **The recovery-code page tells the truth about when the code is live (R-1161).** Since R-1151 (agent ≥ 0.160.0) the
new code becomes live only when the two words come back; the page still said „Ez mostantól az élő helyreállítási
kód". It now shows „Ez a kód az ellenőrzés után lesz az élő helyreállítási kód: írd be lent a két kért szót. Addig a
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@@ -187,8 +187,10 @@ func (s *Server) filesCookieKey(r *http.Request) (present, ok bool) {
return true, s.filesSessionAlive(parts[0])
}
// carriesNonAdminFileBrowserToken: does the request carry a FileBrowser token (its cookie, a Bearer header, or the
// `auth` query parameter of the forwarded URI) whose permissions are not admin's? FileBrowser 1.5.6's token is an HS256
// carriesNonAdminFileBrowserToken: does the request carry a FileBrowser token — anywhere FileBrowser 1.5.6 reads one:
// its cookie, the `auth` query parameter of the forwarded URI, an Authorization header (Bearer, or Basic with the token
// as the password) — whose permissions are not admin's? A source missed here is a way past this check (the security
// review of 2026-10-19 found Basic missing). FileBrowser 1.5.6's token is an HS256
// JWT with the claims belongsTo, Permissions{admin,…}, iat, exp, iss (measured on demo-hp 2026-10-19); the user's NAME
// is not in it, so admin-or-not is the line: the box has `admin` (password) and the header user (never admin,
// infra.fileBrowserDefaultPermissions). The signature is NOT checked here and need not be: this check can only REFUSE,
@@ -199,12 +201,28 @@ func carriesNonAdminFileBrowserToken(r *http.Request, uri string) bool {
if c, err := r.Cookie(fileBrowserJWTCookie); err == nil && c.Value != "" {
toks = append(toks, c.Value)
}
if a := r.Header.Get("Authorization"); len(a) > 7 && strings.EqualFold(a[:7], "bearer ") {
toks = append(toks, strings.TrimSpace(a[7:]))
// The Authorization header exactly as FileBrowser 1.5.6 reads it (backend/http/auth.go extractToken): split on " ",
// "bearer" → the second part; "basic" → the Basic-auth PASSWORD is the token. Our trimmed reading is added too.
if a := r.Header.Get("Authorization"); a != "" {
parts := strings.Split(a, " ")
switch strings.ToLower(parts[0]) {
case "bearer":
if len(parts) > 1 {
toks = append(toks, parts[1])
}
toks = append(toks, strings.TrimSpace(a[len(parts[0]):]))
case "basic":
if _, pw, ok := r.BasicAuth(); ok {
toks = append(toks, pw)
}
}
}
// `auth` is FileBrowser's token query parameter; `jwt` is its external-JWT one (off on our boxes — read anyway).
if u, err := url.Parse(uri); err == nil {
if v := u.Query().Get("auth"); v != "" {
toks = append(toks, v)
for _, k := range []string{"auth", "jwt"} {
if v := u.Query().Get(k); v != "" {
toks = append(toks, v)
}
}
}
for _, t := range toks {
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@@ -433,6 +433,20 @@ func TestFilesSSO_R1155_HouseholdTokenDiesWithTheSignOut(t *testing.T) {
if b := s.filesEntry(r); b.Code != http.StatusUnauthorized {
t.Fatalf("API call with the household's token as Bearer: %d, want 401", b.Code)
}
// Every other way FileBrowser 1.5.6 reads a token (backend/http/auth.go extractToken) — each must be refused too.
for name, hdr := range map[string]string{
"Basic auth, the token as the password": "Basic " + base64.StdEncoding.EncodeToString([]byte("x:"+household.Value)),
"Bearer with two spaces": "Bearer " + household.Value,
"lower-case bearer, trailing words": "bearer " + household.Value + " x",
} {
r := httptest.NewRequest(http.MethodGet, "http://felhom-controller:8080"+filesAuthPath, nil)
r.Header.Set("X-Forwarded-Host", "files.example.hu")
r.Header.Set("X-Forwarded-Uri", "/api/users?id=self")
r.Header.Set("Authorization", hdr)
if b := s.filesEntry(r); b.Code != http.StatusUnauthorized {
t.Errorf("API call with the household's token as %s: %d, want 401", name, b.Code)
}
}
if q := filesAsk(s, "files.example.hu", "/api/raw?files=x&auth="+url.QueryEscape(household.Value), "*/*"); q.Code != http.StatusUnauthorized {
t.Fatalf("download with the household's token in ?auth=: %d, want 401", q.Code)
}