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Critical · 9.3 CVE-2026-73090 EUVD-2026-56784

PeerTube: Cross-origin remote video takeover via Update activity

Published Aug 11, 2026 · Updated Aug 13, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Chocobozzz PeerTube < 8.2.2 —

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