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medium 5.6

CVE-2026-102682 json

Pipecat: Public exposure of Pipecat’s development runner can allow unauthenticated bot session creation

published 26d ago modified 11d ago also EUVD-2026-101601 , GHSA-hqm2-cfx2-2vgh

cvss
5.6
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.2%
EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 14%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Pipecat is an open-source Python framework for building real-time voice and multimodal conversational agents. From 0.0.98 until 1.6.0, the pipecat-ai package's built-in development runner exposes unauthenticated endpoints including /start, /daily, and /daily-dialin-webhook that can create bot sessions and Daily rooms. The runner binds to localhost by default and is intended only for local development, so exploitation requires an operator to expose it to untrusted traffic through --host 0.0.0.0, a published port, or a tunnel without access controls. An unauthenticated caller can consume local resources and third-party quotas and, depending on configuration, receive a room URL and join token. Version 1.6.0 adds a prominent development-runner banner and documentation that clarifies the unauthenticated boundary and directs production deployments to an authenticated dispatcher or managed runtime, while the endpoint behavior remains by design. This issue is fixed in version 1.6.0.

Patch / fix

  • pypi pipecat-ai 1.6.0
  • pipecat pipecat 1.6.0

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CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
11d ago

Exploit prediction

0.23% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 14% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 5.6 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
GitHub 3.1 5.6 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
pypi pipecat-ai
>=0.0.98, <1.6.0
1.6.0

Affected products

  • pipecat-ai pipecat

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-345 Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity
  • CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
  • CWE-862 Missing Authorization

References

Sources

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