Comment on Jellyfin over the internet
douglasg14b@lemmy.world 5 weeks agoThe jellyfin has a whole host of unresolved and unmitigated security vulnerabilities that make exposing it to the internet. A pretty poor choice.
Comment on Jellyfin over the internet
douglasg14b@lemmy.world 5 weeks agoThe jellyfin has a whole host of unresolved and unmitigated security vulnerabilities that make exposing it to the internet. A pretty poor choice.
ShortN0te@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
And which one of those are actually vulnerabilities that are exploitable? First, yes ofc unauthenticated endpoints should be fixed, but with those there is no real damage to be done.
If you know the media path then you can request a playback, and if you get the user ids then you can get all users. That’s more or less it.
Good? No. But far from making it a poor choice exposing it.
douglasg14b@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
These are all holes in the Swiss cheese model.
Just because you and I cannot immediately consider ways of exploiting these vulnerabilities doesn’t mean they don’t exist or are not already in use.
This is one of the biggest mindset gaps that exist in technology, which tends to result in a whole internet filled with exploitable services and devices. Which are more often than not used as proxies for crime or traffic, and not directly exploited.
Meaning that unless you have incredibly robust network traffic analysis, you won’t notice a thing.
There are so many sonarr and similar instances out there with minor vulnerabilities being exploited in the wild because of the same"Well, what can someone do with these vulnerabilities anyways" mindset. Turns out all it takes is a common deployment misconfiguration to turn it into an RCE, which wouldn’t have been possible if the vulnerability was patched.
This is an example of a close to home Swiss cheese model type situation.