Unauthenticated RCE via Custom Plugin HTTP Path on Dynamically Linked Builds
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- High
- Impact type
- Security bypass, Code execution
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · High
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-284 and CWE-94.
Summary
Bifrost HTTP transport before 2.0.0 accepts an enabled custom plugin whose path is an HTTP URL through unauthenticated POST /api/plugins when management authentication is disabled (the default, governance.auth_config.is_enabled=false). The shared-object loader treats an http-prefixed path as a download URL, writes the body to a temporary .so, and passes it to Go's plugin.Open. After a successful open, optional Init runs immediately with the supplied config as the Bifrost process user. On documented dynamically linked builds (DYNAMIC=1 / no static-link flags), which the vendor requires for custom Go plugins, plugin.Open is expected to succeed and this is unauthenticated remote code execution. On the published statically linked Docker image, plugin.Open fails with Dynamic loading not supported, so that build class is only server-side request forgery. Attack complexity is High because the attacker cannot force RCE on the default static image and a loadable plugin must match the host Go version, OS, architecture, and linkage. The 1.6.x HTTP transport line through 1.6.11 does not contain the fix.
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
- Fix · CNA Bifrost (maximhq) Fixed in 2.0.0
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-86242
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-7g8f-4jrf-x782
- 2026-10-07 Priority changed: LOW → MEDIUM
References
More maximhq vulnerabilities
- TI-2026-39919 Bifrost: SSRF deny-list incomplete: isPublicIP permits CGNAT, IPv6 6to4/NAT64, and site-local in FetchAndEncodeURL CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.7
- TI-2026-61769 Bifrost unauthenticated remote code execution via MCP stdio client registration CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
Sources
- CVE-2026-86242 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-86242 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-7g8f-4jrf-x782 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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