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CVE-2026-75857: CodeWhale before 0.8.64 Privilege Escalation via exec_shell_interact

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 29/100)

The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.15% (FIRST EPSS).
Someone with local access to the system can trigger it. No account or password is required. Special conditions such as timing or configuration are required.
Fixed version: Hmbown CodeWhale 0.8.41, 0.8.64.

Low priority for now. Upgrade to Hmbown CodeWhale 0.8.41, 0.8.64 or later.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

CodeWhale versions >= 0.3.10 and < 0.8.64 (published as deepseek-tui >= 0.3.10 and < 0.8.41 on npm and 0.3.10 through 0.8.41 on crates.io, and as codewhale / codewhale-tui >= 0.8.41 and < 0.8.64) contain a vulnerability in the exec_shell_interact (alias exec_interact) tool, whose approval_requirement returns ApprovalRequirement::Auto. This overrides the default Required approval for code-executing tools, so LLM-controlled stdin is written into an already-approved long-running interactive shell (e.g., a python3 -i REPL, mysql, ssh, or sudo -i session) without any approval prompt. An attacker who can inject instructions via untrusted content the agent ingests (a fetched page, MCP result, or repo file) can cause commands to run at the privilege level of that approved process. Fixed in codewhale / codewhale-tui 0.8.64; the deprecated deepseek-tui crate has no fixed release.

HighCVSS 7.3 · v4.0—No exploit Fix available

Local privilege escalation

GHSA-g29h-pfmp-qp9r

Published: Aug 18, 2026
Updated: Oct 29, 2026
EPSS: 0.1% · 4th percentile
CWE: CWE-269

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Action score

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS: 29 / 40 · 7.3 / 10
CISA KEV: 0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS: 0 / 30 · 0.1%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation: proof of concept
Automatable: no
Technical impact: total

Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.

CNA vs NVD score

NVD: —
CNA · VulnCheck: 7.3; NVD has not scored this yet; the score shown is the CNA’s.

CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

The score given by the assigning authority versus NVD’s independent score. A gap means the severity is contested.

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Affected systems

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Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (VulnCheck). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

Hmbown CodeWhale
- 0.8.41, 0.8.64, 0.8.64not affected
- 0.3.10 and later · up to and including 0.8.41affected · semver
- 0.3.10 and later · before 0.8.41affected · semver
- 0.8.41 and later · before 0.8.64affected · semver
- 0.8.41 and later · before 0.8.64affected · semver

Package-level exposure

OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.

Ecosystem	Package	Affected range	Fix
crates.io	codewhale-tui	from 0.8.41 · before 0.8.64	0.8.64
crates.io	deepseek-tui	from 0.3.10 · up to and including 0.8.41	—
npm	codewhale	from 0.8.41 · before 0.8.64	0.8.64
npm	deepseek-tui	from 0.3.10 · before 0.8.41	0.8.41

Same product

hmbown: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

CVE-2026-45374CodeWhale: task_create Insecure Defaults Enable RCE via Prompt Injection in Project Files
38Monitor
CVE-2026-45311CodeWhale: run_tests Tool Enables RCE via Malicious Repository Without Approval
38Monitor
CVE-2026-75856CodeWhale before 0.8.64 SSRF Bypass via DNS Pinning TOCTOU
36Monitor

Published before and after this one in the same product

← EarlierCVE-2026-45310May 28, 2026 · CodeWhale: SSRF via HTTP Redirect Bypass in fetch_url Tool
29Monitor
← EarlierCVE-2026-45373May 28, 2026 · CodeWhale: SSRF‌ IPV6 bypass
29Monitor
Later →CVE-2026-75858Aug 18, 2026 · CodeWhale rlm_eval before 0.8.64 Remote Code Execution
34Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

Product / package	Fixed version	Source
Hmbown CodeWhale	0.8.41	Vendor (CNA)
Hmbown CodeWhale	0.8.64	Vendor (CNA)
crates.io:codewhale-tui	0.8.64	Package registry (OSV)
npm:codewhale	0.8.64	Package registry (OSV)
npm:deepseek-tui	0.8.41	Package registry (OSV)

Exploit status

No known public exploit

No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.

Research context

For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.

Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

No dated events beyond publication.

EPSS, last 120 days

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Patch and commit links

Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.

Hmbown/CodeWhalecommit 57f3c89

Credits

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sai-shreporter

Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

No nightly-computed relations.

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).

Technical details

Attack conditions

Someone with local access to the system can trigger it.
No account or password is required.
Special conditions such as timing or configuration are required.

If successful

Confidentiality
Integrity
Availability

Attack vector: Local
Attack complexity: High
Privileges required: None
User interaction: P
Scope: X

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-269 · Improper Privilege Management

CVSS vector

CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

nvd-secondary

Root cause

To simplify setup, a service account is granted broad, cluster-wide permissions. The principle of least privilege is skipped during installation.

The bug in code

The whole CWE-269 class

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

Vulnerable

yaml

1kind: ClusterRole
2rules:
3  - apiGroups: ["*"]
4    resources: ["*"]
5    verbs: ["*"]

Fixed

yaml

1kind: Role
2metadata:
3  namespace: lodos-system
4rules:
5  - apiGroups: ["apps"]
6    resources: ["deployments"]
7    verbs: ["get", "list", "update"]

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.

Attack patterns (CAPEC)

ATT&CK techniques

Abuse Elevation Control MechanismT1548

Change log

Fix✗ → ✓Sep 28, 2026, 10:10 PM UTC

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References

github.com/Hmbown/CodeWhale/commit/57f3c89471e27ac4032d9791f6885e5d4408c381

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