Vulnerability · Published Sep 18, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M
CVE-2026-77385Kyoo: Transcoder serves uncataloged files from the media directory
Medium 4.3
In plain English
A medium-severity authorization bypass via user-controlled key in Kyoo from zoriya. Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.3% (higher than 28% of all known vulnerabilities).
Official description
Kyoo is a self-hosted media server focused on movies, series, and anime. Prior to 5.1.0, a registered user with the core.play permission could supply a base64-encoded filesystem path to the transcoder. The path handling in transcoder/src/api/path.go cleaned the value and checked only that it began with Settings.SafePath before getHash processed it, while transcoder/src/api/streams.go served the accepted path without verifying a Kyoo catalog record. This missing catalog-level authorization allowed the user to retrieve hidden, temporary, operational, or other uncataloged files beneath the media directory when the path was known or guessed. This vulnerability is fixed in 5.1.0.
Affected products (as reported)
Weakness: CWE-639, CWE-862 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
References
- https://github.com/zoriya/Kyoo/security/advisories/GHSA-fc8v-vr3q-hc46 x_refsource_CONFIRM
- https://github.com/zoriya/Kyoo/pull/1577 x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/zoriya/Kyoo/commit/c542adb5dc6d681e6491b28b5ac618c35c446d91 x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/zoriya/Kyoo/releases/tag/v5.1.0 x_refsource_MISC