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doc: document dangerous symlink behavior

Much earlier, a design decision was made that the permission model should not prevent following symbolic links to presumably inaccessible locations. Recently, after some back and forth, it had been decided that it is indeed a vulnerability that symbolic links, which currently point to an accessible location, can potentially be re-targeted to point to a presumably inaccessible location. Nevertheless, months later, no solution has been found and the issue is deemed unfixable in the context of the current permission model implementation, so it was decided to disclose the vulnerability peculiarity and to shift responsibiliy onto users who are now responsible for ensuring that no potentially dangerous symlinks exist in any directories that they grant access to.

I believe that this design issue might be surprising and that it comes with significant security implications for users, so it should be documented.

Original vulnerability report: https://hackerone.com/reports/1961655

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