CVE-2026-52872

Streambert: Local File Exfiltration and Overwrite via Subtitle file: Protocol

HIGH
8.8
CVSS Score
Published: August 18, 2026 at 09:26 PM UTC
Updated: October 22, 2026 at 05:09 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorStreambert

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Severity
HIGH8.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%
SSVC
PoC

Description

Streambert is a cross-platform Electron Desktop App to stream and download video content. Prior to 2.5.0, the downloadSubtitleFile utility in src/ipc/downloads.js, reached through the run-download IPC channel, accepts a renderer-supplied subtitle url using the file: URI scheme and passes its decoded pathname to fs.copyFileSync. The renderer also controls downloadPath, which determines the destination path. A compromised renderer can therefore copy any file readable by the StreamBERT process into an attacker-chosen writable location, exposing sensitive local data, and can overwrite existing writable files. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.5.0.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

v < 2.5.0
Affected range stops below 2.5.0, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

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No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.

SSVC — Action Prioritization

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CVSS

8.8HIGHGitHub_M
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
HIGH
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusDEFERRED
CWE
CWE-22CWE-73

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