CVE-2026-53871
HIGH
8.1
CVSS 3.1
Description
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.
Metadata
Severity & Metrics
8.1
HIGH CVSS 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Affected products (1)
| Vendor | Product | Platform | Versions |
|---|---|---|---|
| nesquena | hermes-webui | — | 0 < 0.51.368, 0.51.368 |
Weakness (CWE)
| CWE | Source | Description |
|---|---|---|
| CWE-565 | cna | Reliance on Cookies without Validation and Integrity Checking |
CVSS scores (2)
| Score | Severity | Version | Source | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8.6 | HIGH | 4.0 | cna | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N |
| 8.1 | HIGH | 3.1 | cna | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N |
References (5)
- Release Notes https://github.com/nesquena/hermes-webui/releases/tag/v0.51.368
- Researcher Pull Request https://github.com/nesquena/hermes-webui/pull/4023
- Maintainer Pull Request https://github.com/nesquena/hermes-webui/pull/4036
- https://github.com/nesquena/hermes-webui/commit/9e96f5f6adf93b6d1e27ebddfb4d2833ca06ff3b
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/hermes-webui-profile-scoped-authorization-bypass-via-forged-hermes-profile-cookie