CVE-2026-73219 CVAT: Denial of service with regards to automatic annotation
A user with write access can block automatic annotation for other tasks by submitting inconsistent task and job IDs in CVAT.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2026-73219?
CVE-2026-73219 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in cvat-ai cvat, published on 11 Aug 2026. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
CVAT is an open source interactive video and image annotation tool for computer vision. From 2.17.0 until 2.72.0, a user with write access to a CVAT job can submit a batch automatic annotation request to RequestViewSet.create with inconsistent task and job IDs, and because the task ID determines the single active request slot, block automatic annotation for another task whose ID is known. This issue is fixed in version 2.72.0.
Weakness: CWE-1288
Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-73219?
How do I fix CVE-2026-73219?
No fix has been published for CVE-2026-73219 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2026-73219 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-73219 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-7xhx-3q27-xvcx.