Cherry Studio is Vulnerable to OS Command Injection during Connection with a Malicious MCP Server
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- Passive
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Attack requirements
- Present
- Impact type
- Code execution
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · High
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-78.
Summary
Cherry Studio is a desktop client that supports for multiple LLM providers. From versions 1.2.5 to 1.5.1, Cherry Studio is vulnerable to OS Command Injection during a connection with a malicious MCP server in HTTP Streamable mode. Attackers can setup a malicious MCP server with compatible OAuth authorization server endpoints and trick victims into connecting it, leading to OS command injection in vulnerable clients. This issue has been patched in version 1.5.2.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- Poc
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Total
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA cherry-studio (CherryHQ) Fixed in 1.5.2
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2025-54074
References
More CherryHQ Cherry Studio vulnerabilities
- TI-2025-38278 Cherry Studio allows one-click on a specific URL to cause a command to execute CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.7
- TI-2025-34191 Cherry Studio RCE Vulnerability Disclosure CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.7
- TI-2025-33908 Cherry Studio One-click Remote Code Execution Vulnerability through Custom URL Handling CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.6
Sources
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