CVE-2026-57946
Description
Invidious before version 2.20260626.0 contains a broken access control vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to retrieve private playlist contents by accessing the RSS feed playlist endpoint without authentication. Attackers can supply a playlist ID to the feed endpoint to obtain the full playlist contents, owner email address, and associated video entries without any authentication.
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 — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → 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/iv-org/invidious/commit/c435dc1204970bcca06bcdcfb116c22092be22fd
- https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/issues/5775
- https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/pull/5776
- https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/releases/tag/v2.20260626.0
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/invidious-private-playlist-disclosure-via-unauthenticated-rss-feed-endpoint
CWEs
CWE-862
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.