CVE-2026-59258
Description
immich before 3.0.3 contains a broken access control vulnerability in the PUT /albums/:id/user/:userId endpoint that allows shared album editors to modify member roles without owner-only restrictions. Attackers with editor access can demote the album owner to editor and promote themselves to owner in sequential requests, gaining full control including deletion and eviction capabilities.
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/immich-app/immich/issues/29857
- https://github.com/immich-app/immich/releases/tag/v3.0.3
- https://github.com/immich-app/immich/pull/29883
- https://github.com/immich-app/immich/commit/84dff19ca9a467752d848ff54763d62c04ebf960
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/immich-shared-album-editor-ownership-takeover-via-updateuser
CWEs
CWE-863
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.