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Plex server patching required (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Plex has notified some of its users on Thursday to urgently update their media servers due to a recently patched security vulnerability.

The company has yet to assign a CVE-ID to track the flaw and didn't provide additional details regarding the patch, only saying that it impacts Plex Media Server versions 1.41.7.x to 1.42.0.x.

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[–] 14 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I did this a few months back.

Some things aren't as great, but you get full control and your server idles way better on JellyFin.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Yeah, as long as you have a decently supported client the entire platform is very serviceable. I do wish they would get rid of the unprotected endpoints and officially support 2FA on the server and clients.

    For all their anti-consumer practices Plex does at least take their security very seriously.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

    I posted a while back, tested the biggest open endpoints and they were properly secured, the issues just weren't updated.

    Note: Plex didn't have SSL, and refused to implement it, until ~6 weeks after I created a POC token exploit. Here's the GitHub repo I posted as a patch before they got their system in order: https://github.com/Fmstrat/plex-ssl. In other words, don't give them too much credit.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    I'll go look at it again as well, their (jf) source control still had a lot of ancient open tickets last time I looked at it.

    TLS for Plex was a really nice guesture. Company handling the issuing of the cert was pretty nice.

    Realistically, I don't mind running a proxy for SSL unwrapping, there are enough projects out there that handle the unwrapping and renew their own keys from lets encrypt.

    I just want to self-host this thing maybe run it through a single proxy product send the URL out to my extended family and forget about it. I wanted to be as secure as reasonably possible enough that I feel comfortable surfacing it.

    Right now I surface Plex for the distant relations and tailscale jellyfin for my own, but it kills me I want Plex gone. But there are random TVs and kids on tablets, and honestly I don't want to be everyone's VPN endpoint or worry about onboarding everyone's new device.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Yea the catch was we were asking for TLS for a long time, and this was pre- Let's Encrypt, so those patching on their own didn't have a free (minus work) way to handle it. It took a releasable POC to get action.

    All out devices just have a permanent Wireguard client since it uses basically no battery, and then a allow rules for households. If you don't want to run the client, and don't want to take the time to learn, you don't get access. But I totally get how that's not for everyone.

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