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The problem

MediaLibrary::validatePath() rejects file names whose accents are stored decomposed (NFD), such as e + U+0301 instead of é. macOS produces names like that, so files uploaded or synced from a Mac can end up in the media library but can't be opened, renamed, moved or deleted there: every one of those calls validates the path first and throws "Invalid file path specified".

Whether this happens depends on the PCRE2 version, not on Winter. The whitelist relies on \w under the u flag. Since PCRE2 10.43, \w in UCP mode also matches non-spacing marks (Mn), so the same regex accepts NFD names on newer builds and rejects them on older ones:

PHP bundled PCRE2 Poigne\u{0301}es.jpg
8.2 10.40 rejected
8.3 10.42 rejected
8.4 10.44 accepted

PHP builds that link a system libpcre2 older than 10.43 reject them on any PHP version.

Changes

\p{M} (combining marks) is added to the whitelist, so the result no longer depends on the PCRE2 build. On 10.43+ nothing changes for Mn; it also admits the rarer Mc and Me marks.

Combining marks can't spell .. or ://, and the traversal checks after the whitelist are unchanged.

I didn't normalize the path to NFC instead. validatePath() returns the path that is then used for storage operations, and on byte-exact filesystems like ext4 an NFC path doesn't find an NFD file, so the error would only turn from "invalid path" into "file not found". It would also need ext-intl, which Winter doesn't require.

Tests

validPathsProvider has a new NFD case. MediaLibraryTest passes on PHP 8.4. On 8.4 the case passes with or without the fix, so it's the 8.1–8.3 jobs in the CI matrix that cover it. I checked the before/after behaviour of validatePath() on 8.2, 8.3 and 8.4 locally.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Media library paths now support filenames containing decomposed Unicode accents. The existing path validation rules remain unchanged otherwise.

File names with decomposed (NFD) accents, as macOS stores them, were
rejected as invalid on PCRE2 < 10.43, where \w does not match
combining marks.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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MediaLibrary::validatePath() now allows Unicode combining marks in validated paths. The valid-path test data adds a filename with decomposed accented characters.

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The validator currently preserves decomposed paths, but the new test does not verify that the storage path stays byte-exact. An exact-value assertion is a bounded follow-up; no current storage failure is established.

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Decomposed Unicode media paths can now be used, while the existing traversal checks and media-storage boundary remain in place. No new security issue was established, but the available evidence does not cover every production caller or storage backend.

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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — Newly accepted path spellings can reach existing media operations, but the inspected storage-path mapping does not grant access outside the configured media folder.

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  • observed — Backend media mutation handlers retain their read-only enforcement, and the validator still applies traversal and scheme checks after the expanded whitelist.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Folder moves use an existing copy-then-delete sequence rather than an atomic transition. The path-whitelist change does not alter that sequence; storage-adapter interruption and recovery behavior is not established.
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modules/system/tests/classes/MediaLibraryTest.php (1)

61-64: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Assert that validatePath() preserves the NFD path value.

The test currently checks only that the result is a string. A validator that converts the NFD accents to NFC would pass this assertion, but MediaLibrary::put() would then store the file under a different path value. Assert the expected path, including the leading slash added by validatePath().

Suggested fix
     public function testValidPathsOnValidatePath($path)
     {
         $result = MediaLibrary::validatePath($path);
         $this->assertIsString($result);
+        if (strpos($path, "\u{0301}") !== false) {
+            $this->assertSame('/' . $path, $result);
+        }
     }
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In `@modules/system/tests/classes/MediaLibraryTest.php` around lines 61 - 64,
Update testValidPathsOnValidatePath to assert that NFD input paths are returned
unchanged apart from the leading slash added by validatePath, so the test
detects normalization to NFC; retain the existing string assertion for all
cases.

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In `@modules/system/tests/classes/MediaLibraryTest.php`:
- Around line 61-64: Update testValidPathsOnValidatePath to assert that NFD
input paths are returned unchanged apart from the leading slash added by
validatePath, so the test detects normalization to NFC; retain the existing
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