---
id: CVE-2026-104875
title: Ente provides end-to-end encrypted cloud services and security tools
summary: >-
  Ente provides end-to-end encrypted cloud services and security tools. Prior to
  server image 2026.07.09, the POST /emergency-contacts/approve-recovery
  endpoint authorized approval using a client-supplied userID and updated an
  emergency re…
severity: high
cvss: 7.1
cvssVector: 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'
cwe:
  - CWE-639
published: '2026-10-13'
updated: '2026-10-13'
sourceUpdated: '2026-10-13T19:17:55.863'
source: NVD
sourceUrl: 'https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-104875'
references:
  - url: >-
      https://github.com/ente/ente/commit/1fc4956f90277076559c16dedbfad10cb4d1227b
    label: security-advisories@github.com
  - url: >-
      https://github.com/ente/ente/commit/b3fa9f566466ac3660e276a67621130d684957e7
    label: security-advisories@github.com
  - url: 'https://github.com/ente/ente/pull/11311'
    label: security-advisories@github.com
  - url: 'https://github.com/ente/ente/pull/11342'
    label: security-advisories@github.com
  - url: 'https://github.com/ente/ente/security/advisories/GHSA-2hxj-953x-c2vw'
    label: security-advisories@github.com
tags:
  - nvd
ingestedAt: '2026-10-13T19:43:28.910Z'
---

## Overview

Ente provides end-to-end encrypted cloud services and security tools. Prior to server image 2026.07.09, the POST /emergency-contacts/approve-recovery endpoint authorized approval using a client-supplied userID and updated an emergency recovery session using only its client-supplied recovery-session UUID. An accepted emergency contact could submit the contact's own identifier, transition the victim's session from WAITING to READY, clear wait_till, retrieve recovery information, and continue account recovery before the owner-configured notice period expired. Exploitation of the approval bypass required the victim to have previously added and accepted the attacker as an emergency contact, and it did not create recovery rights for an arbitrary account. Separately, the same insufficiently scoped update pattern affected the reject and stop recovery transitions, allowing a user who knew another recovery-session UUID to potentially cancel a session to which the user was not a party. This issue is fixed in server image 2026.07.09.

## Remediation

Refer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.