🛡️ CVE-2026-59153 — aqt

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-22 NVD
8.0
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Anki's local HTTP server does not sufficiently validate requests

Summary

Anki launches a local HTTP server to serve media files and web pages for parts of its interface. While the server has a CORS setup, requests from other origins were not blocked, allowing malicious websites to potentially trigger side-effecting requests.

Browser impact

The severity varies by browser because of Private Network Access (PNA), a newer spec that restricts web pages from making requests to localhost/local network addresses:

Chrome/Chromium (including Edge, Brave): Largely protected, as Chrome has implemented PNA restrictions for several years and now puts local network access behind a permission prompt.

Safari: Hasn't implemented PNA yet, though macOS has some OS-level protections.

Firefox: Most vulnerable — hasn't implemented PNA yet, though it's reportedly planned for Firefox 151.

Patches

The issue was fixed as of Anki 25.09.3

References

https://x.com/taviso/status/2051310678800253318

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity none, availability none.

Weakness class

CVE-2026-59153 is classified as CWE-22: Path Traversal. A file path built from user input is not confined to the intended directory, letting an attacker reach files elsewhere on the filesystem.

Affected software

CVE-2026-59153 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • aqt (fixed in 25.9.3)
  • unknown

Timeline and source

Published on 19 June 2026 and last revised on 23 July 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

github.com (Web)
nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Package)
github.com (Web)
x.com (Web)

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CWE CWE-22
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-06-19
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-07-23
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
aqt — 25.9.3
unknown — —

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