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stoatchat before 0.15.5 Denial of Service via mass mentions

Priority MEDIUM 64CWE-248Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
Low
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-248.

Summary

stoatchat versions before 0.15.5 contain a denial of service vulnerability in the acknowledgement worker that processes mass mention messages. Authenticated users can send five crafted role-mention messages to terminate all acknowledgement workers, disabling push notifications and mention badges deployment-wide until the API process restarts.

Why it matters now

Exploitation Proof of concept CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00371 31st percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Fixed stoatchat (stoatchat): 0.15.5

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

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
stoatchatstoatchatbefore 0.15.50.15.5Patch availableCNA
  • stoatchat Vendorstoatchat Affected before 0.15.5 Fixed in 0.15.5 Patch available CNA

Remediation

  • Fix · CNA stoatchat (stoatchat) Fixed in 0.15.5

Fixed in the same release

Records fixed by the same vendor advisory or release, as the CNA lists them.

  • Release ·

    stoatchat 0.15.5

    6 records Highest priority Priority HIGH 4 HIGH, 1 MEDIUM, 1 LOW

    Other records, highest priority first

    • TI-2026-64832 stoatchat before 0.15.5 Local Filesystem Read via SVGPriority HIGH 77
    • TI-2026-64833 stoatchat before 0.15.5 Account Enumeration via Error LocationPriority HIGH 70
    • TI-2026-64834 stoatchat before 0.15.5 MFA Brute Force via Insufficient Rate LimitingPriority HIGH 69

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-100675
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-gjgj-9pm3-6hxg

References

  • 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-2026-51266 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
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Sources