# CVE-2025-32946: PeerTube Arbitrary Playlist Creation via ActivityPub Protocol

> Attackers can create playlists in other users' channels via ActivityPub due to missing ownership validation, requiring a patch.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.3 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 15 Apr 2025
- **Updated:** 15 Apr 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-6f46-45q7-4jx2

## What is CVE-2025-32946?

CVE-2025-32946 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in framasoft:peertube, published on 15 Apr 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

This vulnerability allows any attacker to add playlists to a different user’s channel using the ActivityPub protocol. The vulnerable code sets the owner of the new playlist to be the user who performed the request, and then sets the associated channel to the channel ID supplied by the request, without checking if it belongs to the user.

Weakness: CWE-282 (Improper Ownership Management)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-32946?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Framasoft Peertube.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-32946?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-32946 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-32946 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2025-32946 exists.

## Other vulnerabilities in framasoft:peertube

- [CVE-2022-0881](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-0881/): Insecure Storage of Sensitive Information in chocobozzz/peertube (high 7.6)
- [CVE-2021-3780](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-3780/): Cross-site Scripting (XSS) - Stored in chocobozzz/peertube (high 7.6)
- [CVE-2025-32947](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-32947/): PeerTube ActivityPub Crawl Infinite Loop DoS (high 7.5)
- [CVE-2025-32948](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-32948/): PeerTube ActivityPub Playlist Creation Blind SSRF and DoS (high 7.5)
- [CVE-2025-32944](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-32944/): PeerTube User Import Authenticated Persistent Denial of Service (medium 6.5)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-32946 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-32946 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in framasoft:peertube, published on 15 Apr 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2025-32946 exists.

Affected product: framasoft:peertube. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-32946/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-32946/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-32946
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-32946
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-32946

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-32946/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.