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🛡️ CVE-2025-49181 — media-server

🟠 CVSS 8.6 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-862 NVD
8.6
CVSS Score
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Description

Due to missing authorization of an API endpoint, unauthorized users can send HTTP GET

requests to gather sensitive information. An attacker could also send HTTP POST requests to modify

the log files’ root path as well as the TCP ports the service is running on, leading to a Denial of Service

attack.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality low, integrity low, availability high.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H

  • Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Privileges required: None — an unauthenticated stranger can try it.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
  • Confidentiality impact: Low — limited, and the attacker does not choose what is affected.
  • Integrity impact: Low — limited, and the attacker does not choose what is affected.
  • Availability impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.

Weakness class

CVE-2025-49181 is classified as CWE-862: Missing Authorization. No authorisation check is performed before carrying out a restricted action.

Affected software

CVE-2025-49181 is recorded against 1 package.

  • media-server

Timeline and source

Published on 12 June 2025 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

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www.cisa.gov
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Other advisories for this package

media-server has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-862: Missing Authorization) in other software:

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.6
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H
CWE CWE-862
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2025-06-12
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
media-server — —

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