# CVE-2026-40096: immich: Open Redirect via Shared Album name

> An attacker can craft a shared album name to redirect victims to malicious sites, facilitating phishing attacks against immich users.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.1 (`CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N`)
- **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:** 14 Apr 2026
- **Updated:** 15 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-24fq-72x8-v7hm

## What is CVE-2026-40096?

CVE-2026-40096 is a medium-severity vulnerability in immich-app immich, published on 14 Apr 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

immich is a high performance self-hosted photo and video management solution. Versions prior to 2.7.3 contain an open redirect vulnerability in the shared album functionality, where the album name is inserted unsanitized into a <meta> tag in api.service.ts. A registered attacker can create a shared album with a crafted name containing 0;url=https://attackersite.com" http-equiv="refresh, which when rendered in the <meta property="og:title"> tag causes the victim's browser to redirect to an attacker-controlled site upon opening the share link. This facilitates phishing attacks, as the attacker could host a modified version of immich that collects login credentials from victims who believe they need to authenticate to view the shared album. This issue has been fixed in version 2.7.3.

Weakness: CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation), CWE-601 (URL Redirection to Untrusted Site)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-40096?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Futo Immich.

## How do I fix CVE-2026-40096?

No fix has been published for CVE-2026-40096 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2026-40096 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2026-40096 exists.

## Other vulnerabilities in immich-app immich

- [CVE-2026-35455](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-35455/): immich has Stored XSS via OCR Text in 360° Panorama Viewer (high 7.3)
- [CVE-2026-23896](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-23896/): immich API Key Privilege Escalation vulnerability (high 7.2)
- [CVE-2026-25118](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-25118/): Information disclosure in immich (medium 6.3)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2026-40096 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2026-40096 is a medium-severity vulnerability in immich-app immich, published on 14 Apr 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-2026-40096 exists.

Affected product: immich-app immich. 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-2026-40096/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-40096/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-40096
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-40096
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2026-40096

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-40096/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.