# CVE-2026-102682: Pipecat: Public exposure of Pipecat’s development runner can allow unauthenticated bot session creation

- Also known as: GHSA-HQM2-CFX2-2VGH
- Severity: CVSS 5.6 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.6.0
- Published: 2026-10-14 · Updated: 2026-10-29

## Affected

- pipecat-ai pipecat: from 0.0.98, fixed in 1.6.0
- pipecat-ai (PyPI): from 0.0.98, fixed in 1.6.0

## Description

Pipecat is an open-source Python framework for building real-time voice and multimodal conversational agents. From 0.0.98 until 1.6.0, the pipecat-ai package's built-in development runner exposes unauthenticated endpoints including /start, /daily, and /daily-dialin-webhook that can create bot sessions and Daily rooms. The runner binds to localhost by default and is intended only for local development, so exploitation requires an operator to expose it to untrusted traffic through --host 0.0.0.0, a published port, or a tunnel without access controls. An unauthenticated caller can consume local resources and third-party quotas and, depending on configuration, receive a room URL and join token. Version 1.6.0 adds a prominent development-runner banner and documentation that clarifies the unauthenticated boundary and directs production deployments to an authenticated dispatcher or managed runtime, while the endpoint behavior remains by design. This issue is fixed in version 1.6.0.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on pipecat-ai pipecat, pipecat-ai, upgrade to a fixed version (1.6.0) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/pipecat-ai/pipecat/security/advisories/GHSA-hqm2-cfx2-2vgh
- https://github.com/pipecat-ai/pipecat/pull/5060
- https://github.com/pipecat-ai/pipecat/commit/acaac3e49f50968f3ffb645a42ecc48d71c4e723
- https://github.com/pipecat-ai/pipecat/releases/tag/v1.6.0

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