Machine-written summary
Summary written by Claude Haiku from the source advisory. Not reviewed by a person.
hermes-agent versions before 0.18.0 contain an injection flaw in how configuration environment lines are sanitized. A remote attacker could exploit it, but the attack is highly complex and difficult, though a public exploit has been released. Upgrade to hermes-agent 0.18.0 or later.
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Severity and exploitation
| Score | Rating | CVSS | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6.3 | Medium | 4.0 | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P | CNA (VulDB) |
- CISA KEV Not listed.
- EPSS 0.0027, the 18th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
Timeline
- 31 Oct 2026, 14:41 UTC First seen by agentprime
- 31 Oct 2026, 14:41 UTC Confirmed by OSV
Sources
- GitHub Advisory Database: GHSA-mv8x-fg99-32mf
- OSV: GHSA-mv8x-fg99-32mf
- nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-10222
- github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/commit/b944c6e821c2177eac6da857c99ff24566aa56b0
- gist.github.com/YLChen-007/7ee2eeaa383b3540d2e8854250c03fb0
- github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent
- github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/hermes-agent/PYSEC-2026-2513.yaml
- vuldb.com/cve/CVE-2026-10222
- vuldb.com/submit/822020
- vuldb.com/vuln/367501
- vuldb.com/vuln/367501/cti