# CVE-2025-48948: Navidrome Transcoding Permission Bypass Vulnerability Report

- Also known as: GHSA-F238-RGGP-82M3, GO-2025-3733
- Severity: CVSS 7.4 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 0.56.0
- Published: 2025-05-30 · Updated: 2025-05-30

## Affected

- navidrome: fixed in 0.56.0
- github.com/navidrome/navidrome (Go): fixed in 0.56.0

## Description

Navidrome is an open source web-based music collection server and streamer. A permission verification flaw in versions prior to 0.56.0 allows any authenticated regular user to bypass authorization checks and perform administrator-only transcoding configuration operations, including creating, modifying, and deleting transcoding settings. In the threat model where administrators are trusted but regular users are not, this vulnerability represents a significant security risk when transcoding is enabled. Version 0.56.0 patches the issue.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on navidrome, github.com/navidrome/navidrome, upgrade to a fixed version (0.56.0) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/navidrome/navidrome/security/advisories/GHSA-f238-rggp-82m3
- https://github.com/navidrome/navidrome/pull/4096
- https://github.com/navidrome/navidrome/commit/e5438552c63fecb6284e1b179dddae91ede869c8

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