Subsonic API: any authenticated user can delete or read any other user's playlist (IDOR)
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Security bypass
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- Low · High · None
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA and GitHub. Impact type from CWE-285.
Summary
gonic is a music streaming server / free-software subsonic server API implementation. Prior to version 0.21.0, the Subsonic API endpoints `/rest/deletePlaylist.view` and `/rest/getPlaylist.view` perform no per-resource authorization. Once authenticated as any user (admin or not), an attacker can delete any playlist owned by any other user (including admin) by passing its `id` and read the full contents (name, comment, song list) of any other user's **private** (non-public) playlist by passing its `id`. The Subsonic playlist `id` is `base64url("<userID>/<filename>.m3u")`. Because filenames are user-supplied or time-derived and the `userID` is a small integer, IDs are guessable and frequently exposed (e.g. a previously-public playlist that was later made private still has the same ID). This breaks the multi-user trust boundary of gonic: a low-privileged user can wipe an administrator's curated playlists, and a user can exfiltrate any private playlist they obtain an ID for. The issue was fixed in commit `6dd71e6a3c966867ef8c900d359a7df75789f410`, which is part of version 0.21.0.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- Poc
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| sentriz | gonic | before 0.21.0 | 0.21.0 | Patch available | CNA |
| — | go.senan.xyz/gonic (Go) | before 0.21.0 | 0.21.0 | Patch available | GHSA-hmgp-w9jm-vp95 |
- gonic Vendorsentriz Affected before 0.21.0 Fixed in 0.21.0 Patch available CNA
- go.senan.xyz/gonic (Go) Vendor— Affected before 0.21.0 Fixed in 0.21.0 Patch available GHSA-hmgp-w9jm-vp95
Remediation
- Fix · CNA gonic (sentriz) Fixed in 0.21.0
- Fix · GHSA-hmgp-w9jm-vp95 go.senan.xyz/gonic (Go) Fixed in 0.21.0 Advisory →
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-49338
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-hmgp-w9jm-vp95
References
More sentriz vulnerabilities
- TI-2026-36518 Path traversal in sentriz gonic CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.1
- TI-2026-36517 Path traversal in sentriz gonic CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.1
- TI-2026-58917 gonic before 0.22.0 Missing Administrator Check on the Subsonic startScan Endpoint CVSS 4.0MEDIUM 5.3
Sources
- CVE-2026-49338 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-49338 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-hmgp-w9jm-vp95 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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