SeaweedFS: Filer JWT allowed_prefixes literal prefix match allows cross-tenant access to sibling paths

Impact

When a filer JWT restricts a token to a set of path prefixes via allowed_prefixes, the authorization check used a literal byte-prefix match (strings.HasPrefix). A token scoped to /tenant1 therefore also authorized requests to sibling paths such as /tenant1234, /tenant1-old, and /tenant1backup.

In a multi-tenant deployment this lets the holder of one tenant's token access another tenant's data. Because allowed_prefixes gates both read and write tokens, the impact covers cross-tenant reads and writes. A valid scoped token is required, so this is an authorization bypass rather than a fully unauthenticated flaw.

Affected component

• weed/server/filer_server_handlers.go (JWT allowed_prefixes authorization check)

Patches

Fixed in 4.24. The check now matches on /-separated path components after path.Clean normalisation, so /tenant1 authorizes only /tenant1 and its descendants — not /tenant1234 or other sibling paths.

Workarounds

Where feasible, choose prefix names that are not string-prefixes of one another (e.g. keep a trailing separator convention). Upgrade to 4.24.

References

• Reported by Kadir Arslan (https://github.com/KadirArslan)