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TI-2026-40124 Aliases CVE-2026-55585GHSA-q27q-98j4-9pfv

QWED: Authenticated Remote Code Execution via Unsafe SymPy `parse_expr()`

Priority HIGH 73CWE-94Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
Low
Impact type
Code execution
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
High · High · High
Fix status
Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA and GitHub. Impact type from CWE-94.

Summary

QWED is open-source AI verification infrastructure for deterministic verification of LLM outputs, tool calls, code, schemas, and agent state before production execution. Prior to 5.1.2, the qwed package passes caller-controlled math expressions directly to SymPy parse_expr() without restricted global_dict and local_dict namespaces, allowing Python eval() to resolve builtins and execute arbitrary Python code in the API server process. In src/qwed_new/api/main.py, POST /verify/math is protected by get_current_tenant but accepts any valid tenant API key, reads the expression field, applies only a cosmetic re.sub(r'(\d)(()', r'\1*\2', expression) normalization, and passes the result to parse_expr(). In src/qwed_new/core/batch.py, POST /verify/batch sends math items through batch_service.create_job(), stores item.query verbatim, and _verify_item() passes VerificationType.MATH input to parse_expr() without sanitization. The default-enabled POST /auth/signup endpoint allows anyone to create a standard tenant account, POST /auth/api-keys issues an x-api-key, and either vulnerable path can then be used to read or write files, modify data, execute operating system commands, terminate the service, and compromise other tenants in a shared deployment. This issue is fixed in version 5.1.2.

Why it matters now

Exploitation Proof of concept CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00775 56th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Fixed qwed-verification (QWED-AI): 5.1.2qwed (PyPI): 5.1.2

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

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
QWED-AIqwed-verificationbefore 5.1.25.1.2Patch availableCNA
—qwed (PyPI)before 5.1.25.1.2Patch availableGHSA-q27q-98j4-9pfv
  • qwed-verification VendorQWED-AI Affected before 5.1.2 Fixed in 5.1.2 Patch available CNA
  • qwed (PyPI) Vendor— Affected before 5.1.2 Fixed in 5.1.2 Patch available GHSA-q27q-98j4-9pfv

Remediation

  • Fix · CNA qwed-verification (QWED-AI) Fixed in 5.1.2
  • Fix · GHSA-q27q-98j4-9pfv qwed (PyPI) Fixed in 5.1.2 Advisory →

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-55585
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-q27q-98j4-9pfv

References

  • TI-2026-40091 QWED-MCP: Unsafe SymPy `parse_expr()` Remote Code Execution via Unsanitized Math Expression Input CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8

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