# CVE-2026-49340: gonic has arbitrary file write in createPlaylist: any authenticated user can write playlist M3U content to attacker-controlled path on the host

- Also known as: GHSA-4GXV-P5G5-J7W7, GO-2026-5827
- Severity: CVSS 8.1 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 0.21.0
- Published: 2026-06-19 · Updated: 2026-06-22

## Affected

- sentriz gonic: fixed in 0.21.0
- go.senan.xyz/gonic (Go): fixed in 0.21.0

## Description

gonic is a music streaming server / free-software subsonic server API implementation. Prior to version 0.21.0, a logic error in `ServeCreateOrUpdatePlaylist` allows any authenticated Subsonic user (including non-admin) to write playlist M3U content to an attacker-controlled absolute filesystem path on the gonic host, and to create intermediate directories with `0o777` permissions. The bug is independent of CVE-2026-49338 and CVE-2026-49339. It is an unreachable guard clause combined with no path containment in `Store.Write`. Version 0.21.0 patches the issue.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on sentriz gonic, go.senan.xyz/gonic, upgrade to a fixed version (0.21.0) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/sentriz/gonic/security/advisories/GHSA-4gxv-p5g5-j7w7

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