diff --git a/CHANGELOG.unreleased.md b/CHANGELOG.unreleased.md
index 142e985933..51833ebe1d 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.unreleased.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.unreleased.md
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ For upgrade instructions, please check the [migration guide](MIGRATIONS.released
 - Fixed sorting of mags in outbound zarr streaming. [#8125](https://github.com/scalableminds/webknossos/pull/8125)
 - Fixed a bug where you could not create annotations for public datasets of other organizations. [#8107](https://github.com/scalableminds/webknossos/pull/8107)
 - Users without edit permissions to a dataset can no longer delete sharing tokens via the API. [#8083](https://github.com/scalableminds/webknossos/issues/8083)
+- Fixed downloading task annotations of teams you are not in, when accessing directly via URI. [#8155](https://github.com/scalableminds/webknossos/pull/8155)
 
 ### Removed
 
diff --git a/app/controllers/AnnotationIOController.scala b/app/controllers/AnnotationIOController.scala
index 3fffaa2312..8f183d8449 100755
--- a/app/controllers/AnnotationIOController.scala
+++ b/app/controllers/AnnotationIOController.scala
@@ -457,7 +457,7 @@ class AnnotationIOController @Inject()(
             tracingStoreClient.getSkeletonTracing(skeletonAnnotationLayer, skeletonVersion)
         } ?~> "annotation.download.fetchSkeletonLayer.failed"
         user <- userService.findOneCached(annotation._user)(GlobalAccessContext) ?~> "annotation.download.findUser.failed"
-        taskOpt <- Fox.runOptional(annotation._task)(taskDAO.findOne)
+        taskOpt <- Fox.runOptional(annotation._task)(taskDAO.findOne(_)(GlobalAccessContext)) ?~> "task.notFound"
         nmlStream = nmlWriter.toNmlStream(
           name,
           fetchedSkeletonLayers ::: fetchedVolumeLayers,