Quick answers
- Is CVE-2026-55197 exploited in the wild?
- No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2026-55197 being exploited in the wild.
- How severe is CVE-2026-55197?
- Medium severity, with a CVSS score of 6.5, published 17 June 2026.
- Which products and versions are affected?
- Nesquena Hermes WebUI < 0.51.443.
- Is there a fix for CVE-2026-55197?
- A patch was published on 2026-06-15: Version 0.51.443 released Junglewise finds every place you run it, drafts the upgrade and applies it once you approve.
- How is CVE-2026-55197 attacked?
- It is attacked over the network, in a web application.
- Am I affected by CVE-2026-55197?
- Check whether you run Nesquena Hermes WebUI at an affected version. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.
Technical details
A broken access control vulnerability (CWE-639) exists in the /api/session endpoint of Hermes WebUI. While the main session list endpoint correctly filters results based on the user's active profile, the detail endpoint failed to perform a profile-matching check when a specific session_id was provided. An authenticated attacker with knowledge of a session ID belonging to a different profile could retrieve full conversation transcripts and metadata via a GET request to /api/session?session_id=<foreign_id>&messages=1. The vulnerability was addressed in version 0.51.443 by implementing the _profiles_match check on the detail and export routes.
Affected products
- nesquena hermes-webui < 0.51.443
Timeline
- 2026-06-11: other: Fix proposed in pull request #3982
- 2026-06-15: patched: Version 0.51.443 released
- 2026-06-17: disclosed: CVE-2026-55197 published
References
- https://github.com/nesquena/hermes-webui/commit/2a3baa71b81ca92da8ece8616a09f15894beec71
- https://github.com/nesquena/hermes-webui/pull/3982
- https://github.com/nesquena/hermes-webui/pull/4269
- https://github.com/nesquena/hermes-webui/releases/tag/v0.51.443
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/hermes-webui-broken-access-control-in-api-session-endpoint