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Important Notice of Security Incident (forums.plex.tv)

submitted 9 months ago by KarnaSubarna@lemmy.ml to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Additional read: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/plex-tells-users-to-reset-passwords-after-new-data-breach/

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[–] ShortN0te@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 months ago

Besides that, security by obscurity is the worst possible form and barely qualifies as security at all.

In fact security by obscurity is not security at all. In this case it should be authenticated or to the very least to actually use a random string like a uuid. But, changing the root path does prevent it from exploiting. Not perfect but a temporary solution.

It's also another place where the Jellyfin devs leave their users to their own devices when it comes to securing the server against malicious actors.

Another place? What else? You mean setting up you own server? That is in fact your responsibility.