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CVE-2026-53871

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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.

Severity
HIGH
CVSS score
8.6 (v4.0)
Vulnerability status
Deferred
Source identifier
Published
2026-06-17 19:18:11.023000
Last modified
2026-10-25 23:10:00.167000
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  "id": "CVE-2026-53871",
  "sourceIdentifier": "[email protected]",
  "published": "2026-06-17T19:18:11.023",
  "lastModified": "2026-10-25T23:10:00.167",
  "vulnStatus": "Deferred",
  "cveTags": [],
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      "value": "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."
    },
    {
      "lang": "es",
      "value": "Hermes WebUI anterior a 0.51.368 contiene una vulnerabilidad de omisión de autorización en la función get_profile_cookie() que acepta nombres de perfil no autenticados de la cookie hermes_profile. Un atacante autenticado puede falsificar el valor de la cookie hermes_profile para omitir las comprobaciones de autorización con ámbito de perfil y acceder a sesiones, archivos y recursos en diferentes perfiles."
    }
  ],
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      "source": "[email protected]",
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          "packageURL": "pkg:github/nesquena/hermes-webui",
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    {
      "url": "https://github.com/nesquena/hermes-webui/commit/9e96f5f6adf93b6d1e27ebddfb4d2833ca06ff3b",
      "source": "[email protected]"
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    {
      "url": "https://github.com/nesquena/hermes-webui/releases/tag/v0.51.368",
      "source": "[email protected]"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/hermes-webui-profile-scoped-authorization-bypass-via-forged-hermes-profile-cookie",
      "source": "[email protected]"
    }
  ]
}