CVE-2026-40502

HIGH

OpenHarness Remote Administrative Command Injection via Gateway Handler

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

Description

OpenHarness prior to commit dd1d235 contains a command injection vulnerability that allows remote gateway users with chat access to invoke sensitive administrative commands by exploiting insufficient distinction between local-only and remote-safe commands in the gateway handler. Attackers can execute administrative commands such as /permissions full_auto through remote chat sessions to change permission modes of a running OpenHarness instance without operator authorization.

Scores

CVSS v3 8.8
EPSS 0.0169
EPSS Percentile 74.0%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact total

Details

CWE
CWE-862
Status published
Products (2)
hkuds/openharness < 2026-04-13
HKUDS/OpenHarness < dd1d235450dd987b20bff01b7bfb02fe8620a0af
Published Apr 16, 2026
Tracked Since Apr 16, 2026