CVE-2026-86178: pixelfed pixelfed

Pixelfed through 0.12.9 Unauthorized Story Access via API

CVSS 5.3 MediumEPSS 0.0032 · 25th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: VulnCheck) at 5 Sept 2026, 11:01 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
Vendor	Product	Versions
pixelfed	pixelfed pkg:github/pixelfed/pixelfed	affected 0.12.9 and earlier semver Other versions: unaffected

Identifiers

CVE-2026-86178

CNA

VulnCheck

Weakness (CWE)

CWE-862

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
5.4	Medium	3.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N	CNA (VulnCheck)
5.3	Medium	4.0	CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N	CNA (VulnCheck)Used for this record

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.0032, the 25th percentile, on 12 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 5 Sept 2026. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/blob/v0.12.9/app/Http/Controllers/StoryComposeController.php#L487-L501 technical-description
github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/blob/v0.12.9/app/Http/Controllers/StoryComposeController.php#L566-L580 technical-description
github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/blob/v0.12.9/routes/web-api.php#L154-L155 technical-description
github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed product
www.vulncheck.com/advisories/pixelfed-through-0.12.9-unauthorized-story-access-via-api third-party-advisory
github.com/geo-chen/oss/blob/main/Pixelfed.md third-party-advisoryexploit

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.