CVE-2026-73090 PUBLISHED

PeerTube: Cross-origin remote video takeover via Update activity

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 10.08.2026 Published: 11.08.2026 Updated: 11.08.2026

PeerTube is an ActivityPub-federated video streaming platform. Prior to 8.2.2, processUpdateActivity and processUpdateVideo accept an ActivityPub Update containing a Video object without verifying that byActor.url is authorized for the host in videoObject.id, allowing a malicious federated server to rewrite another server's video metadata, visibility, media file, and HLS URLs. This issue is fixed in version 8.2.2.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:N
CVSS Score: 9.3

Product Status

Vendor Chocobozzz
Product PeerTube
Versions
  • Version < 8.2.2 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-863: Incorrect Authorization CWE