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

7.4 CVSS

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.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2025-48948

CVSS Base Severity: HIGH

CVSS Base Score: 7.4

CVSS 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

Problem Types

CWE-863: Incorrect Authorization

Affected Products

Vendor: navidrome

Product: navidrome

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.04% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 11.87% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-06-07 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-48948
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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