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

Exploitation

No confirmed exploitation recorded. Patch Next marks exploitation only from CISA KEV.

CVSS

5.6 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

EPSS

• CVE-2026-102682: 0.23% estimated exploitation activity in the next 30 days; percentile 14.39 (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-03). This is a model estimate, not proof of exploitation or customer exposure.

As published by the source; long descriptions are shortened.

Pipecat’s built-in development runner exposes endpoints that create bot sessions and, for the Daily transport, paid Daily rooms. These development endpoints intentionally do not authenticate callers. The runner binds to localhost by default and is designed exclusively for local development. It is not built or supported as a production server. Exploitation therefore requires an operator to deliberately make the development runner reachable from an untrusted network, such as by setting --host 0.0.0.0, publishing its port, or using a public tunnel without access controls. If exposed in this way, an unauthenticated caller may invoke endpoints including /start, /daily, and /daily-dialin-webhook. Depending on the endpoint and configuration, this can create a bot session or Daily room and may return a room URL and join token. Repeated requests may also consume local resources and third-party service quotas. The consequences of interacting with a launched bot depend on that bot’s…

Published by the source

15 Oct 2026, 20:22 UTC

Last modified by the source

15 Oct 2026, 20:30 UTC

Source last checked

26 Oct 2026, 13:55 UTC

1. Revision 3 · amended · 26 Oct 2026

   Amended from ghsa record GHSA-hqm2-cfx2-2vgh

2. Revision 2 · amended · 24 Oct 2026

   Amended from osv record GHSA-hqm2-cfx2-2vgh

3. Revision 1 · created · 23 Oct 2026

   Published from ghsa record GHSA-hqm2-cfx2-2vgh

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# Patch Next advisory brief: CVE-2026-102682

Advisory: Pipecat: Public exposure of Pipecat’s development runner can allow unauthenticated bot session creation
IDs: CVE-2026-102682, GHSA-hqm2-cfx2-2vgh
Record: https://patchnext.com/advisories/cve-2026-102682 (revision 3, source checked 26 Oct 2026, 13:55 UTC)
Inventory: none attached. This brief comes from a public page and does not say whether any deployment is affected.
Severity: Medium (CVSS 5.6)
Exploitation: no confirmed exploitation recorded. Patch Next confirms exploitation only from CISA KEV.
Vendor response: Vendor fix available; fixed versions by package: pipecat-ai 1.6.0. A vendor fix does not mean a deployment is fixed.

## Affected components
- PyPI pipecat-ai: affected >= 0.0.98, <= 1.5.0; fixed in 1.6.0

## Suggested inspection (read-only)
- `python -m pip show pipecat-ai`: prints the installed version. Run with the environment that serves production active.

## Supported action
Upgrade each affected component to a fixed version on its release line. For a transitive dependency, upgrade the parent package or add an override or constraint, then regenerate the lockfile. Redeploy every environment that ran an affected version.

## Required regression checks
- Run the test suite and a production build.
- Exercise the features that depend on pipecat-ai.
- Repeat the inspection and confirm that only fixed versions remain installed.

## Rollback considerations
- Keep the previous lockfile and deployment artifact. Rolling back reinstates the vulnerable version, so apply any documented mitigation while you fix forward.

## Unresolved questions
- Which deployments run an affected version?
- Exploitation status can change. Check again before lowering the priority.
- Mark the work resolved only after the fixed version is verified in production.

## Sources
- Verified: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hqm2-cfx2-2vgh (GitHub-reviewed advisory GHSA-hqm2-cfx2-2vgh lists affected ranges: PyPI pipecat-ai >=0.0.98 <=1.5.0)
- Verified: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-hqm2-cfx2-2vgh (OSV record GHSA-hqm2-cfx2-2vgh lists affected ranges: PyPI pipecat-ai >=0.0.98 <1.6.0 (fixed))

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