Advisories for Pypi/Pipecat-Ai package

Pipecat’s built-in development runner exposes endpoints that create bot sessions and, for the Daily transport, paid Daily rooms. These development endpoints intentionally do not authenticate callers. The runner binds to localhost by default and is designed exclusively for local development. It is not built or supported as a production server. Exploitation therefore requires an operator to deliberately make the development runner reachable from an untrusted network, such as by setting …

The pipecat development runner registers a /ws WebSocket endpoint for telephony testing that accepts connections without any authentication. An unauthenticated remote attacker who can reach an exposed runner endpoint can connect to this endpoint, send a crafted Twilio handshake message containing an attacker-supplied callSid, and cause the server to issue an authenticated Twilio REST API hang-up request against that call SID using the server operator's own credentials. This may allow …

A path traversal vulnerability exists in Pipecat's development runner (src/pipecat/runner/run.py). When the runner is started with the –folder flag, it exposes a GET /files/{filename:path} download endpoint. The filename path parameter is concatenated directly onto args.folder with no containment check. Starlette normalises literal ../ sequences in URLs, but %2F-encoded slashes bypass this normalisation: the path parameter is URL-decoded after routing, so ..%2F..%2Fetc%2Fpasswd resolves to a path two levels above args.folder. An …

A critical vulnerability exists in Pipecat's LivekitFrameSerializer – an optional, non-default, undocumented frame serializer class (now deprecated) intended for LiveKit integration. The class's deserialize() method uses Python's pickle.loads() on data received from WebSocket clients without any validation or sanitization. This means that a malicious WebSocket client can send a crafted pickle payload to execute arbitrary code on the Pipecat server. The vulnerable code resides in src/pipecat/serializers/livekit.py (around line 73), where …