HKUDS OpenHarness Session Key Collision Privilege Escalation
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Attack requirements
- None
- Impact type
- Security bypass
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- Low · Low · Low
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-287.
Summary
HKUDS OpenHarness prior to PR #159 remediation contains a session key derivation vulnerability that allows authenticated participants in shared chats or threads to hijack other users' sessions by exploiting a shared ohmo session key that lacks sender identity verification. Attackers can reuse another user's conversation state and replace or interrupt their active tasks by colliding into the same session boundary through the shared chat or thread scope.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-6729
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-pvmf-7x77-8q82
References
More HKUDS Openharness vulnerabilities
- TI-2026-05985 HKUDS OpenHarness Insecure Default Remote Channel Allowlist CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.3
- TI-2026-29263 OpenHarness SSRF via web_fetch and web_search CVSS 4.0HIGH 7.8
- TI-2026-29262 OpenHarness Permission Bypass via grep and glob root argument CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.7
- TI-2026-29252 OpenHarness Remote Administrative Command Injection via Gateway Handler CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.7
- TI-2026-06639 HKUDS OpenHarness Remote Command Execution via /bridge Slash Command CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.7
- TI-2026-05982 HKUDS OpenHarness Plugin Management Command Exposure CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.7
Sources
- CVE-2026-6729 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-6729 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-pvmf-7x77-8q82 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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