Stoat for Android Internal File Disclosure via Exported ShareTargetActivity URI Validation
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Local
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- Passive
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Attack requirements
- None
- Impact type
- —
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · None · None
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA.
Summary
Stoat for Android exports the chat.stoat.activities.ShareTargetActivity component (reachable to any process on the device via the android.intent.action.SEND intent) and accepts the file to share as a URI supplied through the android.intent.extra.STREAM extra. The activity does not validate or filter the incoming URI before using it as the outgoing attachment, so a caller can pass a file:// URI pointing at the application's own internal storage (for example /data/data/chat.revolt/databases/revolt.db, cached authentication token files, or preferences) and have the app treat that internal file as a user-selected attachment. An attacker who can invoke intents on the victim's device (via ADB access, a co-installed malicious application, or any other route that reaches Android's intent dispatch) can launch ShareTargetActivity with such a URI and cause the victim, on a single channel-selection interaction, to send the internal file to any Stoat channel or user of the attacker's choosing. The composer displays the attachment as \"attachment\" with no filename indication, so the victim has no visible signal that the file being sent is their own internal application data. Consequences include disclosure of the local Stoat database (message history, contact list, cached content), disclosure of authentication tokens permitting full account takeover, and disclosure of any other file readable by the app process.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- 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
No affected products listed by the sources yet.
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-57848
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-cr46-r787-v566
References
Patch 1
Other 1
More stoatchat vulnerabilities
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- TI-2026-51266 stoatchat before 0.15.0 Uncapped SVG Rendering Denial of Service CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.7
- TI-2026-45038 stoatchat < 0.14.0 SSRF via DNS-based IP Blocklist Bypass CVSS 4.0HIGH 7.7
- TI-2026-64833 stoatchat before 0.15.5 Account Enumeration via Error Location CVSS 4.0MEDIUM 6.9
- TI-2026-51267 stoatchat before 0.15.0 SSRF via IPv6 unspecified address bypass CVSS 4.0MEDIUM 6.9
Sources
- CVE-2026-57848 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-57848 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-cr46-r787-v566 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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