stoatchat before 0.15.0 Uncapped SVG Rendering Denial of Service
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Attack requirements
- None
- Impact type
- Denial of service
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- None · None · High
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-400.
Summary
stoatchat before 0.15.0 fails to validate SVG viewBox dimensions in the proxy endpoint, allowing attackers to cause denial of service by memory exhaustion. Attackers can host malicious SVGs with extremely large width and height values and trigger concurrent requests to exhaust available memory across proxy replicas.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- Poc
- Automatable
- Yes
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA stoatchat (stoatchat) Fixed in 0.15.0
Fixed in the same release
Records fixed by the same vendor advisory or release, as the CNA lists them.
- Release ·
stoatchat 0.15.0
3 records Highest priority Priority HIGH 2 HIGH, 1 LOW
Other records, highest priority first
- TI-2026-51267 stoatchat before 0.15.0 SSRF via IPv6 unspecified address bypassPriority HIGH 70
- TI-2026-51268 stoatchat before 0.15.0 Permission Bypass via message_fetchPriority LOW 31
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-73057
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-4rgf-ww29-jxx4
References
More stoatchat vulnerabilities
- TI-2026-45152 stoatchat before 0.13.5 Unauthenticated SSRF via proxy and embed endpoints CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.2
- TI-2026-64832 stoatchat before 0.15.5 Local Filesystem Read via SVG CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.8
- 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
- TI-2026-64834 stoatchat before 0.15.5 MFA Brute Force via Insufficient Rate Limiting CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.3
Sources
- CVE-2026-73057 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-73057 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-4rgf-ww29-jxx4 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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