Flowintel Alert Settings Configuration Allows Remote Code Execution via Arbitrary Configuration Keys
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- High
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Attack requirements
- None
- Impact type
- Code execution
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · High
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-94.
Summary
Affected versions of Flowintel improperly trust configuration keys supplied to the alerts settings update endpoint. While configuration values were normalized to Python literals, the corresponding keys were used directly when constructing and replacing lines in conf/config_module.py. The vulnerable code used requester-controlled keys in both the regular expression and the generated assignment: f'{key} = {py_val}' and appended an assignment if the key was not already present. The modified Python configuration module was subsequently reloaded using importlib.reload(). This creates a code-generation boundary in which specially crafted configuration keys can alter the Python source structure and result in execution of attacker-controlled Python statements. Version impacted >=3.3.0
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- 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
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-81662
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-pvfv-9f26-pxv8
References
More flowintel vulnerabilities
- TI-2026-56455 Flowintel Fails to Invalidate Active Sessions After Password Change CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.1
- TI-2026-56447 Flowintel Organization Administrator Can Reset Full Administrator Password and Escalate Privileges CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.6
- TI-2026-56456 Flowintel Login Email Validation Bypass Allows Log Injection via Crafted Email Input CVSS 4.0MEDIUM 6.9
- TI-2026-56389 Flowintel Arbitrary Log File Path Allows Remote Code Execution via Template Injection CVSS 4.0HIGH 7.5
- TI-2026-56446 Flowintel Missing Task-to-Case Authorization Allows Cross-Case Task Modification CVSS 4.0HIGH 7.2
- TI-2026-56318 Flowintel Note PDF Export Allows Arbitrary Local File Read via Pandoc/XeLaTeX Processing CVSS 4.0HIGH 7.1
Sources
- CVE-2026-81662 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-81662 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-pvfv-9f26-pxv8 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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