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CVE-2026-55743

CRITICAL
9.6
CVSS 3.1
Description
The shell tool command allowlist in the SecurityPolicy of OpenHuman desktop agent through 0.54.0 (default Supervised security policy) can be bypassed to execute arbitrary OS commands with the privileges of the desktop user. Two flaws in src/openhuman/security/policy.rs combine: (1) is_args_safe() blocks the find flags -exec and -ok but not the functionally identical -execdir and -okdir, which also execute an arbitrary command for each matched file; and (2) skip_env_assignments() strips leading inline KEY=value environment-variable assignments before allowlist validation, so a command such as GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF=<cmd> git diff is validated as the allowed git diff but, when executed via the shell, runs <cmd> through git's environment-driven hooks (for example GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF or GIT_SSH_COMMAND). Because the sandbox is the primary trust boundary between untrusted LLM-processed content and the host operating system, an attacker can achieve remote code execution via indirect prompt injection: a malicious document, email, calendar event, or web page ingested by the agent instructs it to run a benign-looking allowlisted command, resulting in arbitrary command execution, data exfiltration, arbitrary file read/write, and lateral movement on the user's machine. The issue was fixed in commit 60050aa09a870f53ed7e4cd40ed41fd2860329e7 (first released in 0.54.22-staging; first stable release 0.56.0), which blocks -execdir/-okdir for find.

Metadata

CVE ID
CVE-2026-55743
State
PUBLISHED
Assigner
TuranSec
Reserved
2026-06-17 12:59 UTC
Published
2026-06-17 14:08 UTC
Last updated
2026-06-17 15:40 UTC
Primary CWE
CWE-78
CWE-78 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in a…
Vendor / Product
tinyhumansai / OpenHuman
Sources
cve.org  ·  NVD

Severity & Metrics

9.6 CRITICAL CVSS 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC — CISA Coordinator
Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Tech. Impact
total
Affected products (1)
VendorProductPlatformVersions
tinyhumansai OpenHuman macOS,Windows,Linux 0 ≤ 0.54.0
Weakness (CWE)
CWESourceDescription
CWE-184 cna CWE-184 Incomplete List of Disallowed Inputs
CWE-78 cna CWE-78 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection')
CVSS scores (2)
ScoreSeverityVersionSourceVector
9.6 CRITICAL 3.1 cna CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
9.4 CRITICAL 4.0 cna CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H
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