CVE-2026-25643 Frigate Affected by Authenticated Remote Command Execution (RCE) and Container Escape
Administrators or unauthenticated users on exposed instances can execute arbitrary system commands via unsanitized video stream configuration inputs.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- An administrator
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2026-25643?
CVE-2026-25643 is a critical command injection vulnerability in blakeblackshear frigate, published on 6 Feb 2026. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Frigate is a network video recorder (NVR) with realtime local object detection for IP cameras. Prior to 0.16.4, a critical Remote Command Execution (RCE) vulnerability has been identified in the Frigate integration with go2rtc. The application does not sanitize user input in the video stream configuration (config.yaml), allowing direct injection of system commands via the exec: directive. The go2rtc service executes these commands without restrictions. This vulnerability is only exploitable by an administrator or users who have exposed their Frigate install to the open internet with no authentication which allows anyone full administrative control. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.16.4.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-25643?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Frigate Frigate.
How do I fix CVE-2026-25643?
No fix has been published for CVE-2026-25643 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and pass arguments to programs as a list instead of through a shell. More about Command injection.
Is CVE-2026-25643 being exploited?
It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2026-25643 exists.
Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry and 2 proofs of concept on GitHub.
Other vulnerabilities in blakeblackshear frigate
- CVE-2026-33124 Frigate has insecure password change functionality
- CVE-2023-45670 Frigate cross-site request forgery in `config_save` and `config_set` request handlers
- CVE-2023-45672 Frigate unsafe deserialization in `load_config_with_no_duplicates` of `frigate/util/builtin.py`
- CVE-2026-33125 Frigate Broken Access Control: Users assigned the viewer role can delete admin and other low-privileged accounts
- CVE-2026-33469 Authenticated Frigate users can read the full unredacted configuration via `/api/config/raw
Sources
Also known as GHSA-4c97-5jmr-8f6x.