Collection of potential security issues in Jellyfin This is a non exhaustive list of potential security issues found in Jellyfin. Some of these might cause controversy. Some of these are design fla…

  • Flax@feddit.uk
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    1 day ago

    Hacking, even on an insecure system, would be illegal. Any copyright troll trying to sue a single user for having a private jellyfin instance which they hacked to find out about would probably have a hard time actually making a case.

    “Yeah, this one guy was distributing films to himself and a few friends. I know because I hacked him” doesn’t seem like a good case.

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      21 hours ago

      Nothing about this is hacking. They’re not defeating any authentication mechanism to scan your system. That’s the whole problem here. Nothing illegal about running a crawler/scanner service.

      The fact that you have their content publicly accessible is not a “bad case” at all. Open FTP sites were sued plenty. It may be a bit harder to prove distribution intentions… but wouldn’t be hard to make a case that you violated copyright for the content they could enumerate.

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        14 hours ago

        It’s not publicly accessible, though. An account is clearly needed.

        • Saik0@lemmy.saik0.com
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          11 hours ago

          No… that’s the point of this thread. There is no requirement to login in order to manually access endpoints. Up to and including pulling video data.