Technology

38500 readers

534 users here now

A nice place to discuss rumors, happenings, innovations, and challenges in the technology sphere. We also welcome discussions on the intersections of technology and society. If it’s technological news or discussion of technology, it probably belongs here.

Remember the overriding ethos on Beehaw: Be(e) Nice. Each user you encounter here is a person, and should be treated with kindness (even if they’re wrong, or use a Linux distro you don’t like). Personal attacks will not be tolerated.

Subcommunities on Beehaw:

This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

founded 3 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

230

I don't know who needs to hear this, but DO NOT EVER expose Jellyfin to the internet (github.com)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

160 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Collection of potential security issues in Jellyfin This is a non exhaustive list of potential security issues found in Jellyfin. Some of these might cause controversy. Some of these are design fla...

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (17 children)

I'm not smart, can you tell me if having it behind a reverse proxy with certs and everything fixes any of these flaws?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

Not unless the reverse proxy adds some layer of authentication as well. Something like HTTP basic auth, or mTLS (AKA 2-way TLS AKA client certificates)

For nginx: https://docs.nginx.com/nginx/admin-guide/security-controls/configuring-http-basic-authentication/

so if I add a user ”john” with password “mypassword” to video.example.com, you can try adding the login as: “https://john:[email protected]/

Most HTTP clients (e.g. browsers) support adding login like that. I don’t know what other jellyfin clients do that.

The other option is to set up a VPN (I recommend wireguard)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You can't do that with jellyfin.

Basic auth doesn't work with jellyfin. Its a bug. Enable it on your reverse proxy, and jellyfin breaks. Devs closed it as wontfix