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stoatchat before 0.15.5 Local Filesystem Read via SVG

Priority HIGH 77CWE-693Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
Low
Attack requirements
None
Impact type
Security bypass
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
Low · None · High
Fix status
Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-693.

Summary

January, the media proxy/embed service of stoatchat (stoatchat/stoatchat), before version 0.15.5 improperly resolves SVG <image href> values as local filesystem paths when a fetched resource is served as image/svg+xml. An unauthenticated remote attacker who causes the service to proxy an attacker-hosted SVG (e.g. via the /proxy endpoint) can determine whether local files exist through observable response-time differences, and can cause supported local image files to be disclosed after re-encoding. Because each referenced file is read in full with no effective limit on the number or total volume of reads, a single request can also generate an unbounded amount of local filesystem I/O and memory pressure (the published proof of concept drives about 4.34 GB of reads), leading to denial of service. The issue is fixed in 0.15.5.

Why it matters now

Exploitation Proof of concept CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00505 43rd percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Fixed stoatchat (stoatchat): 0.15.5

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

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-2026-64833 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
    • TI-2026-64835 stoatchat before 0.15.5 MFA Bypass via Cross-Account TicketPriority HIGH 66

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-100676
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-4h96-wm2q-h7fw

References

  • TI-2026-45152 stoatchat before 0.13.5 Unauthenticated SSRF via proxy and embed endpoints CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.2
  • 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
  • TI-2026-64834 stoatchat before 0.15.5 MFA Brute Force via Insufficient Rate Limiting CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.3
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Sources