CVE-2026-23526CWE-267

CVAT vulnerable to privilege escalation of users with staff status

High · published January 21, 2026

CVSS v4.0
8.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
21.2
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v4.0
8.5 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
EPSS
0.00296 · 21.2th percentile
Weakness
CWE-267 · Privilege Defined With Unsafe Actions
Published
2026-01-21T21:40Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 21 JAN 21:40Z
    CVAT vulnerable to privilege escalation of users with staff status
    cvelistv5