CVE-2026-53871

Summary

Hermes WebUI before 0.51.368 contains an authorization bypass vulnerability in the get_profile_cookie() function that accepts unauthenticated profile names from the hermes_profile cookie. An authenticated attacker can forge the hermes_profile cookie value to bypass profile-scoped authorization checks and access sessions, files, and resources across different profiles.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
nesquenahermes-webui0 < 0.51.368affected
nesquenahermes-webui0.51.368unaffected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-565: Reliance on Cookies without Validation and Integrity Checking

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

  • SSVC:
  • Exploitation: none
    • Automatable: no
    • Technical Impact: total

References