Frigate Broken Access Control: Users assigned the viewer role can delete admin and other low-privileged accounts
Priority HIGH 68CWE-285Published · Updated
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Security bypass
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- None · High · High
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · NVD. Fix status from CNA and GitHub. Impact type from CWE-285.
Summary
Frigate is a network video recorder (NVR) with realtime local object detection for IP cameras. In versions 0.16.2 and below, users with the viewer role can delete admin and low-privileged user accounts. Exploitation can lead to DoS and affect data integrity. This issue has been patched in version 0.16.3.
Why it matters now
Exploitation Proof of concept CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00253 16th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Public exploit Yes 1 exploit referenceTagged by NVD
Fix Fixed frigate (blakeblackshear): 0.16.3
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- Poc
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| blakeblackshear | frigate | before 0.16.3 | 0.16.3 | Patch available | CNA |
| — | frigate (PyPI) | all versions | — | No fix listed | GHSA-vg28-83rp-8xx4 |
- frigate Vendorblakeblackshear Affected before 0.16.3 Fixed in 0.16.3 Patch available CNA
- frigate (PyPI) Vendor— Affected all versions Fixed in — No fix listed GHSA-vg28-83rp-8xx4
CPE configurations NVD · 1
| CPE | Versions | Role | Vendor |
|---|---|---|---|
| cpe:2.3:a:frigate:frigate:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | before 0.16.3 | Vulnerable | blakeblackshear |
- cpe:2.3:a:frigate:frigate:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions before 0.16.3 Vulnerable ·blakeblackshear
Remediation
- Fix · CNA frigate (blakeblackshear) Fixed in 0.16.3
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-33125
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-vg28-83rp-8xx4
References
More blakeblackshear Frigate vulnerabilities
- TI-2026-20743 Frigate Affected by Authenticated Remote Command Execution (RCE) and Container Escape CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.1
- TI-2026-25866 Missing authorization in blakeblackshear frigate CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.5
- TI-2026-25865 Authenticated Frigate users can read the full unredacted configuration via `/api/config/raw CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.5
- TI-2026-25558 Frigate has SSRF vulnerability in /ffprobe endpoint CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.0
- TI-2026-25556 Frigate has insecure password change functionality CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.6
- TI-2023-24471 Frigate unsafe deserialization in `load_config_with_no_duplicates` of `frigate/util/builtin.py` CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
Sources
- CVE-2026-33125 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-33125 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-vg28-83rp-8xx4 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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