Indirect prompt injection in HKUDS Vibe-Trading allows remote command execution
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- Passive
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Attack requirements
- None
- Impact type
- —
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · High
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA.
Summary
HKUDS Vibe-Trading from 0.1.0 before 0.1.7 contains an indirect prompt injection flaw tracked as CWE-1427, where the agent acts on instructions planted in documents or web pages it processes. An unauthenticated remote attacker can plant such instructions to execute shell commands as root, because BashTool and BackgroundRunTool pass model-emitted commands to subprocess.run with shell=True and no allow-list or approval step. The read_url function also fetches arbitrary URLs, which enables server-side request forgery.
Written with Claude Haiku 5.5 from the sources below · 2026-10-28
Description from the CNA
HKUDS Vibe-Trading from 0.1.0 before 0.1.7 contains an indirect prompt injection vulnerability that allows remote attackers to execute shell commands as root by planting instructions in documents or web pages the agent processes. BashTool and BackgroundRunTool pass model-emitted commands to subprocess.run with shell=True and no allow-list or approval step, and read_url fetches arbitrary URLs, enabling command execution and server-side request forgery.
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
Upgrade HKUDS Vibe-Trading to version 0.1.7 or later.
Written with Claude Haiku 5.5 from the sources below · 2026-10-28
- Fix · CNA Vibe-Trading (HKUDS) Fixed in 0.1.7
Fixed in the same release
Records fixed by the same vendor advisory or release, as the CNA lists them.
- Release ·
HKUDS Vibe-Trading 0.1.7
3 records Highest priority Priority HIGH 1 HIGH, 2 MEDIUM
Other records, highest priority first
- TI-2026-78721 Missing authentication in HKUDS Vibe-Trading FastAPI server enables RCEPriority HIGH 81
- TI-2026-78719 HKUDS Vibe-Trading Path Traversal Exposes Server FilesPriority MEDIUM 44
Timeline
- 2026-10-21 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-114107
- 2026-10-22 Priority changed: MEDIUM → LOW
- 2026-10-22 CISA SSVC decision points changed
- 2026-10-22 Priority changed: LOW → MEDIUM
References
More HKUDS vulnerabilities
- TI-2026-44237 LightRAG: Missing Authentication for Critical API Functions in Default Configuration CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2026-78721 Missing authentication in HKUDS Vibe-Trading FastAPI server enables RCE CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.3
- TI-2026-44184 Improper authentication in HKUDS LightRAG CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.3
- TI-2026-26034 Zero-Click Indirect Prompt Injection and Authentication Bypass via Email Polling CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.9
- TI-2026-62432 HKUDS nanobot before 0.3.0 Server-Side Request Forgery via WebFetchTool CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.2
- TI-2026-25310 DeepCode 1.2.0 Path Traversal via SPA Catch-All Route in main.py CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.7
Sources
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