CVAT has stored XSS via annotation guide assets
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- Passive
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Attack requirements
- None
- Impact type
- Code execution, Cross-site scripting
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · None
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-434 and CWE-79.
Summary
CVAT is an open source interactive video and image annotation tool for computer vision. Versions 2.5.0 through 2.66.0 contain a XSS vulnerability that can be accessed through annotation guide assets. When CVAT serves the files attached to an annotation guide, it labels them with a media type ( Content-Type ) that the attacker can influence, so instead of treating an uploaded file as plain data, the victim's browser can be told to treat it as an HTML page and run any JavaScript inside it. This issue has been fixed in version 2.67.0.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Total
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA cvat (cvat-ai) Fixed in 2.67.0
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-65986
References
More cvat-ai vulnerabilities
- TI-2021-20393 Apache Log4j2 Thread Context Message Pattern and Context Lookup Pattern vulnerable to a denial of service attack KEVCVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.0
- TI-2022-13228 Server-Side Request Forgery Vulnerability in Computer Vision Annotation Tool (CVAT) CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2025-16854 CVAT allows remote code execution via tracker Nuclio functions CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.7
- TI-2026-51357 CVAT: Stored XSS via annotation guides in audio tasks CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.5
- TI-2026-18950 CVAT vulnerable to privilege escalation of users with staff status CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.5
- TI-2026-18940 CVAT vulnerable to XSS via skeleton SVG images CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.6
Sources
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