CVE-2024-56362: Navidrome Stores JWT Secret in Plaintext in navidrome.db

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2024-12-23 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-312

Description

Navidrome is an open source web-based music collection server and streamer. Navidrome stores the JWT secret in plaintext in the navidrome.db database file under the property table. This practice introduces a security risk because anyone with access to the database file can retrieve the secret. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.54.1.

Affected products

navidrome: before 0.54.1 — fixed in 0.54.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: navidrome 0.54.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://github.com/navidrome/navidrome/commit/7f030b0859653593fd2ac0df69f4a313f9caf9ff
https://github.com/navidrome/navidrome/commit/9cbdb20a318a49daf95888b1fd207d4d729b55f1
https://github.com/navidrome/navidrome/security/advisories/GHSA-xwx7-p63r-2rj8

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