# CVE-2026-104875: Ente: Accepted emergency contact can bypass the recovery notice period

> An accepted emergency contact can bypass the recovery notice period to prematurely access a victim's account recovery information and take over the account.

- **Severity:** High 7.1 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 13 Oct 2026
- **Updated:** 29 Oct 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-2hxj-953x-c2vw

## What is CVE-2026-104875?

CVE-2026-104875 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in ente, published on 13 Oct 2026. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

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.

Weakness: CWE-639 (Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-104875?


## How do I fix CVE-2026-104875?

No fix has been published for CVE-2026-104875 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2026-104875 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2026-104875 exists.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2026-104875 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2026-104875 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in ente, published on 13 Oct 2026. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2026-104875 exists.

Affected product: ente. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-104875/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-104875/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-104875
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-104875
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2026-104875

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-104875/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.