CVE-2026-23526 CVAT vulnerable to privilege escalation of users with staff status

What is CVE-2026-23526?

CVE-2026-23526 is a high-severity vulnerability in cvat-ai cvat, published on 21 Jan 2026.

Official description

CVAT is an open source interactive video and image annotation tool for computer vision. In versions 1.0.0 through 2.54.0, users that have the staff status may freely change their permissions, including giving themselves superuser status and joining the admin group, which gives them full access to the data in the CVAT instance. Version 2.55.0 fixes the issue. As a workaround, review the list of users with staff status and revoke it from any users that are not expected to have superuser privileges.

Weakness: CWE-267

Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-23526?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Cvat Computer Vision Annotation Tool.

How do I fix CVE-2026-23526?

No fix has been published for CVE-2026-23526 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2026-23526 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-23526 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in cvat-ai cvat

• CVE-2025-23045 CVAT allows remote code execution via tracker Nuclio functions High 8.7
• CVE-2026-23516 CVAT vulnerable to XSS via skeleton SVG images High 8.6
• CVE-2022-31188 Server-Side Request Forgery Vulnerability in Computer Vision Annotation Tool (CVAT) High 8.6
• CVE-2024-37164 CVAT SSRF via custom cloud storage endpoints High 7.1
• CVE-2024-37306 CVAT's export and backup-related API endpoints are susceptible to CSRF High 7.1

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-7pvv-w55f-qmw7.