RocketChat / RocketChat/Rocket.Chat

[Feature] Protect uploads further

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Since Sep 1, 2017.

security triaged type: improvement
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Description

When one would enable protected uploads, files would only be accessible to users while logged in. A flaw in this feature seems to be that any logged in user can download any file.

For instance: When a file is shared in a private channel, any other user who is not part of said private channel could access the file if they were to obtain the link.

This actually prevents me from using Rocket.Chat for the purpose I intended, for now. I hope you might be able to change the way this works in the future, so that uploads shared in private channels can only be downloaded by members of the channel in question.

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