CVE-2026-40502
HIGHOpenHarness Remote Administrative Command Injection via Gateway Handler
Title source: cnaDescription
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.
References (3)
Core 3
Core References
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/openharness-remote-administrative-command-injection-via-gateway-handler
Issue Tracking issue-tracking
https://github.com/HKUDS/OpenHarness/pull/127
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