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CVE-2026-122326Chevereto insecure direct object reference

High priorityMedium6.9EPSS 0.52%, higher than 45% of scored CVEs

CVE-2026-122326 is a insecure direct object reference in Chevereto, rated medium (6.9 on CVSS 4.0).

Why this priority: A public proof of concept exists and exploitation can be automated.

Published · Updated · NVD status: Received

What it is

Changing an identifier in a request reaches another user's records.

How it is reached

An attacker can exploit it over the network, without an account, and nobody has to click anything.

What an attacker gains

The direct impact is limited: partial access to data or a partial outage. In practice, this kind of flaw lets an attacker reach data or actions their role should not allow.

Is it being exploited?

CISA's SSVC assessment notes a public proof of concept. It can be exploited automatically, at scale. EPSS estimates a 0.52% chance of exploitation activity in the next 30 days, higher than 45% of scored CVEs.

What to do

  1. Upgrade Chevereto to 4.5.8 or later.
  2. Until it is patched, keep it off the internet or behind a VPN, allowlist or authenticating proxy.

Description from NVD

Chevereto before 4.5.8 contains an authorization bypass vulnerability in the get-album-contents action of the /json route that allows unauthenticated attackers to list private albums by supplying another user's album id. Attackers with a session token from any public page and an album's encoded id can obtain image filenames, viewer and direct file URLs, and download private images.

What this means for your architecture.

A CVE names a product. Whether it matters depends on where that product sits in your systems: what reaches it, which trust boundary it guards and what it can reach once compromised. Veriom maps your components, their relationships and your trust boundaries from your code, cloud and delivery evidence, so you can see where a component like this sits. The radar itself does not look at your systems.

Components it touches

  • Permission checks in APIs and admin surfaces. The flaw sits between one role or tenant and another.
  • Multi-tenant services. The flaw sits between one role or tenant and another.

Trust boundaries in play

  • Internet-facing entry points. No account is needed. Any instance reachable from outside your perimeter, through a load balancer, gateway, VPN or exposed admin port, is in scope.
  • Between one role or tenant and another. An attacker who crosses it can reach data or actions their role should not allow.

Questions to answer about your own systems

  • Where does Chevereto run in your systems, and at which version?
  • Which of those instances can be reached from the internet or partner networks?
  • What can it reach once compromised: which data stores, secrets and services?

Sources

  • CVE records and CVSS scores from the NVD CVE API. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
  • Exploitation status from CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.
  • Exploit likelihood from FIRST’s Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS), refreshed daily.
  • Explanations are written by Veriom from fixed templates over each record’s data, not by a person reviewing each CVE. Descriptions are quoted from the records as published.