Gokapi vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in File Replace in github.com/forceu/gokapi

Open Source Vulnerabilities CVE-2026-30943

Gokapi is a self-hosted file sharing server with automatic expiration and encryption support. Prior to 2.2.4, An insufficient authorization check in the file replace API allows a user with only list visibility permission (UserPermListOtherUploads) to delete another user's file by abusing the deleteNewFile flag, bypassing the requirement for UserPermDeleteOtherUploads. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.2.4.

Open Source Vulnerabilities GHSA-j6jp-78w8-34x6

## Summary An insufficient authorization check in the file replace API allows a user with only list visibility permission (`UserPermListOtherUploads`) to delete another user's file by abusing the `deleteNewFile` flag, bypassing the requirement for `UserPermDeleteOtherUploads`. ### Impact Any authenticated user with `PERM_REPLACE` (replace own files) and `PERM_LIST` (view other users' uploads) can delete any other user's file without needing `PERM_DELETE`.

Open Source Vulnerabilities GO-2026-4696

Gokapi vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in File Replace in github.com/forceu/gokapi. NOTE: The source advisory for this report contains additional versions that could not be automatically mapped to standard Go module versions. (If this is causing false-positive reports from vulnerability scanners, please suggest an edit to the report.) The additional affected modules and versions are: github.com/forceu/gokapi before v2.2.4.