CVE-2026-102682 Pipecat: Public exposure of Pipecat’s development runner can allow unauthenticated bot session creation
Unauthenticated attackers can create bot sessions and consume resources if the development runner is exposed to untrusted networks.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2026-102682?
CVE-2026-102682 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in pipecat-ai pipecat, published on 14 Oct 2026. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
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.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-102682?
2 open source packages ship an affected version, including pipecat-ai.
| Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
pipecat-ai PyPI | From 0.0.98 | 1.6.0 |
pipecat-ai PyPI | From 0.0.98 | 1.6.0 |
How do I fix CVE-2026-102682?
Upgrade pipecat-ai to 1.6.0 or later.
Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.
Is CVE-2026-102682 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-102682 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-hqm2-cfx2-2vgh.