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    CVE-2026-9369

    A security flaw has been discovered in NousResearch hermes-agent 2026.4.23. Affected is the function _discover_dashboard_plugins of the file hermes_cli/web_server.py of the component CLI web-dashboard Interface. Performing a manipulation of the argument HERMES_ENABLE_PROJECT_PLUGINS results in incorrect comparison. The attack is only possible with local access. The exploit has been released to the public and may be used for attacks. The vendor was contacted early about this disclosure but did not respond in any way.

    Published:May 24, 2026
    Last Modified:May 26, 2026
    EPS:May 24, 2026
    EPSS Score:0.00017
    CVSS Score:5.3

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Nousresearch
    Product
    Hermes-agent

    Exploits

    No exploit reference

    Common Weakness Enumeration

    CWE-697 Incorrect Comparison

    Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

    CAPEC-10 Buffer Overflow via Environment Variables
    CAPEC-120 Double Encoding
    CAPEC-14 Client-side Injection-induced Buffer Overflow
    CAPEC-15 Command Delimiters
    CAPEC-182 Flash Injection
    CAPEC-24 Filter Failure through Buffer Overflow
    CAPEC-267 Leverage Alternate Encoding
    CAPEC-3 Using Leading 'Ghost' Character Sequences to Bypass Input Filters
    CAPEC-41 Using Meta-characters in E-mail Headers to Inject Malicious Payloads
    CAPEC-43 Exploiting Multiple Input Interpretation Layers
    CAPEC-44 Overflow Binary Resource File
    CAPEC-45 Buffer Overflow via Symbolic Links
    CAPEC-46 Overflow Variables and Tags
    CAPEC-47 Buffer Overflow via Parameter Expansion
    CAPEC-52 Embedding NULL Bytes
    CAPEC-53 Postfix, Null Terminate, and Backslash
    CAPEC-6 Argument Injection
    CAPEC-64 Using Slashes and URL Encoding Combined to Bypass Validation Logic
    CAPEC-67 String Format Overflow in syslog()
    CAPEC-7 Blind SQL Injection
    CAPEC-71 Using Unicode Encoding to Bypass Validation Logic
    CAPEC-73 User-Controlled Filename
    CAPEC-78 Using Escaped Slashes in Alternate Encoding
    CAPEC-79 Using Slashes in Alternate Encoding
    CAPEC-8 Buffer Overflow in an API Call
    CAPEC-80 Using UTF-8 Encoding to Bypass Validation Logic
    CAPEC-88 OS Command Injection
    CAPEC-9 Buffer Overflow in Local Command-Line Utilities
    CAPEC-92 Forced Integer Overflow

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    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
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    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
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    Availability
    None
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