Ente Museum Server Authorization Bypass Vulnerability
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- —
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- None · High · None
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CISA ADP. Fix status from CNA.
Summary
Authorization Bypass in the emergency recovery approval component in Ente Technologies Ente Museum Server allows an authenticated attacker configured as a victim's emergency contact to bypass the configured recovery waiting period and take over the victim's account via a crafted `approve-recovery` API request.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-16751
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-jmh3-fv99-c329
References
More ente vulnerabilities
- TI-2026-73350 Accepted emergency contact can bypass Ente recovery notice period CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.1
- TI-2026-51367 Ente: 2of3 cards v1 contain a checksum that enables offline guessing of low-entropy secrets CVSS 4.0MEDIUM 5.9
Sources
- CVE-2026-16751 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-16751 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-jmh3-fv99-c329 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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