stoatchat before 0.15.0 contains a missing authorization vulnerability in the Subscribe message handler that allows authenticated attackers to enumerate members and monitor profile updates of private servers without membership. Attackers can subscribe to any server's member-update topic by sending a Subscribe message with an arbitrary server ID, receiving live UserUpdate events including display names, avatars, and status changes for members they should not have access to.
CVE-2026-74869
Score 7.7 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2026-08-17. a secondary CVSS source baseline 7.7; sources differ by 0.0.
- High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.
- CVSS v3
- 7.7
- EG Score
- 7.7(high)
- EG Risk
- 39(Track)EG Risk 39/100SSVC: Track
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How it’s computedSeverity77% × 45%Exploitation0% × 40%Automatability30% × 15%Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence. - EPSS PROB
- 0%
- EPSS %ILE
- 18%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
August 17, 2026
Last Modified
August 17, 2026
Advisory Details (2)
Auto-updated Aug 17, 2026stoatchat before 0.15.0 Missing Authorization via Subscribe | Advisories | VulnCheck
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/stoatchat-before-missing-authorization-via-subscribeMissing authorization on Bonfire `Subscribe` — cross‑server member enumeration & profile/status surveillance (ban‑evasion) · Advisory · stoatchat/stoatchat · GitHub
https://github.com/stoatchat/stoatchat/security/advisories/GHSA-jj3j-9qr7-jgfcVendor Advisories for CVE-2026-74869(1)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 17× in last 7d / 17× in last 30d)
Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.
- 2026-08-20 22:56 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-20 21:02 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-20 08:16 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-19 19:32 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-19 19:32 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-19 17:04 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-19 06:47 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-18 18:03 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-18 18:02 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-18 13:49 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-18 13:49 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-18 05:09 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-17 16:23 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-17 16:23 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-17 11:40 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-17 11:13 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-17 11:12 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked
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