CVE-2026-23896

immich API Key Privilege Escalation vulnerability

State: Published
Severity: 7.2 High
Published: Jan 29, 2026
Updated: Jan 29, 2026
Reserved: Jan 16, 2026

Description

immich is a high performance self-hosted photo and video management solution. Prior to version 2.5.0, API keys can escalate their own permissions by calling the update endpoint, allowing a low-privilege API key to grant itself full administrative access to the system. Version 2.5.0 fixes the issue.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.2 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	GitHub_M

Weaknesses

CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management

Affected Products

Product	Versions
immichimmich-app	< 2.5.0Affected

References

https://github.com/immich-app/immich/security/advisories/GHSA-237r-x578-h5mv

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