CVE-2026-53871 (GCVE-0-2026-53871)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-06-17 17:58 – Updated: 2026-06-18 13:54 X_Open Source
VLAI
Title
Hermes WebUI < 0.51.368 - Profile-Scoped Authorization Bypass via Forged hermes_profile Cookie
Summary
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
8.6 (High)
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
8.1 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-565 - Reliance on Cookies without Validation and Integrity Checking
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
nesquena hermes-webui Affected: 0 , < 0.51.368 (semver)
Unaffected: 0.51.368 (semver)
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Date Public
2026-06-12 00:00
Credits
Chia Min Jun Lennon
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