# CVE-2026-54695: Pipecat: Telephony WebSocket \`/ws\` Unauthenticated Call-Control Abuse via Attacker-Supplied Call SID

- Also known as: PYSEC-2026-2878, GHSA-J8CV-X86Q-RJ85
- Severity: CVSS 7.5 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.4.0
- Published: 2026-07-09 · Updated: 2026-07-10

## Affected

- pipecat-ai pipecat: fixed in 1.4.0
- pipecat-ai (PyPI): from 0.0.77, fixed in 1.4.0

## Description

Pipecat is an open-source Python framework for building real-time voice and multimodal conversational agents. Prior to 1.4.0, the pipecat development runner registers a /ws WebSocket endpoint for telephony testing that accepts connections without authentication, reads an attacker-supplied callSid from a Twilio stream-start handshake in src/pipecat/runner/utils.py, and passes it to TwilioFrameSerializer so the server can issue an authenticated Twilio REST API hang-up request with the server operator's credentials; equivalent unauthenticated call-control sinks exist for Telnyx and Plivo. This issue is fixed in version 1.4.0.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on pipecat-ai pipecat, pipecat-ai, upgrade to a fixed version (1.4.0) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/pipecat-ai/pipecat/security/advisories/GHSA-j8cv-x86q-rj85
- https://github.com/pipecat-ai/pipecat/pull/4660
- https://github.com/pipecat-ai/pipecat/commit/3032da53434c5ef01d368654b3551cf21c50dec9
- https://github.com/pipecat-ai/pipecat/commit/88440676996e5e548e1aecea5d565e1c48ccf6fa
- https://github.com/pipecat-ai/pipecat/releases/tag/v1.4.0

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