CVE-2026-16751

Ente Museum Server Authorization Bypass Vulnerability

State: Published
Severity: 6.5 Medium
Published: Jul 29, 2026
Updated: Sep 23, 2026
Reserved: Jul 23, 2026

Description

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.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	6.5 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Museum ServerEnte	2.0.34 and earlierAffected

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

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