CVE-2026-16751

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.

Score

CVSS 3.1 6.5 Medium

Status

Deferred - cret@cert.org

Published

2026-07-29

Last modified

2026-10-23

Affected products

• Museum Server (Ente)

References

• https://github.com/ente/ente/tree/v2.0.34
• https://vokecyber.com/research/cve-2026-16751-ente-emergency-recovery-bypass
• https://vokecyber.com/blog/cve-2026-16751-ente-emergency-recovery-bypass
• https://github.com/ente/ente/commit/4789ae67368c1f9ba7eb1a0e2c0588e4a9a55746