CVE-2026-57943
Description
LibrePhotos before 1.0.0 contains a broken object level authorization vulnerability in the SetPhotosShared endpoint that allows authenticated users to grant themselves access to other users' private photos by bypassing ownership validation. Attackers can manipulate shared_to relations without proper owner checks to read arbitrary private photos belonging to other users.
Predictions
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or โ if you've already worked around this in production โ publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
โ Propose a mitigation on Community โ Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
References
- https://github.com/LibrePhotos/librephotos/commit/325bd1f5fda71c6d56737aa09cfce0cb8106675a
- https://github.com/LibrePhotos/librephotos/issues/1860
- https://github.com/LibrePhotos/librephotos/pull/1866
- https://github.com/LibrePhotos/librephotos/releases/tag/1.0.0
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/librephotos-insecure-direct-object-reference-in-setphotosshared-endpoint
CWEs
CWE-639
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.