CVE-2026-22677
Description
Hermes WebUI prior to 0.51.44 contains a path traversal vulnerability in the session import endpoint that allows authenticated attackers to read arbitrary files by importing a crafted session with an unrestricted workspace value. Attackers can supply a blocked filesystem root in the workspace field and subsequently use relative paths in the session file API to access any file readable by the WebUI process.
Predictions
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or โ if you've already worked around this in production โ publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
โ Propose a mitigation on Community โ Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
References
- https://github.com/nesquena/hermes-webui/commit/f00cb74f776f22f02f5eb6b39dfb389f87cc7fd3
- https://github.com/nesquena/hermes-webui/pull/2048
- https://github.com/nesquena/hermes-webui/releases/tag/v0.51.44
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/hermes-webui-path-traversal-via-session-import-endpoint
- https://github.com/nesquena/hermes-webui/pull/2048
CWEs
CWE-22
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.