CVE-2026-23896 (GCVE-0-2026-23896)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-01-29 17:12 – Updated: 2026-01-29 21:25
VLAI?
Title
immich API Key Privilege Escalation vulnerability
Summary
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.
Severity ?
7.2 (High)
CWE
- CWE-269 - Improper Privilege Management
Assigner
References
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Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
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| immich-app | immich |
Affected:
< 2.5.0
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Nomenclature
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