High severity · published Jan 21, 2026
CVE-2026-23526
CVAT vulnerable to privilege escalation of users with staff status
8.8
CVSS
0.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.3% · higher than 22% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
CV
cvat · cvat-ai
>= 1.0.0, < 2.55.0 · source: vendor
CV
Computer Vision Annotation Tool · Cvat
1.0.0 before 2.55.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-23526
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-23526
Patch
https://github.com/cvat-ai/cvat/commit/88ac7aa4d5b52271a30f1aa387c0f5745f8f77d4
Mitigation
https://github.com/cvat-ai/cvat/security/advisories/GHSA-7pvv-w55f-qmw7
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