Vulnerability in hermes-agent (CVE-2026-9353)
Summary
Vulnerability in hermes-agent (CVE-2026-9353). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 0.15.0 or later.
Original description
The description as published by the source.
A security vulnerability has been detected in NousResearch hermes-agent up to 2026.4.23. Impacted is an unknown function of the file agent/skills_guard.py of the component Skills Guard Multi-Word Prompt Handler. The manipulation of the argument THREAT_PATTERNS leads to injection. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. The exploit has been disclosed publicly and may be used. The vendor was contacted early about this disclosure but did not respond in any way.
Source: GitHub Security Advisories (Global) NVD GitHub Advisory
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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-9353 has been found in hermes-agent.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. CVSS score: 7.3/10.
What to do: upgrade hermes-agent to 0.15.0 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "hermes-agent CVE-2026-9353" on the vendor's site.
CVE-2026-9353 (hermes-agent) — CWE-74 / CVSS v3 7.3
Attack vector: remote (network-reachable) / unauthenticated / no user interaction
Patched: 0.15.0 — apply immediately
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.
A vulnerability (CWE-74) exists in hermes-agent.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of hermes-agent.
Severity: High (CVSS 7.3/10). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Update to 0.15.0.
Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.
Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Run grep -r 'hermes-agent' . against your dependency files (package-lock.json, requirements.txt, go.sum) to find affected services.
Response actions
Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order
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1Identify exposure identify
grep -r 'hermes-agent' . | grep -v node_modulesリポジトリと本番環境の依存ファイル (package-lock.json / requirements.txt / go.sum / Gemfile.lock 等) で
hermes-agentを grep し、稼働しているサービス・バージョンを把握する。 -
2Apply patch patch
Upgrade hermes-agent to 0.15.0ステージング環境で 0.15.0 に上げて回帰テスト → 本番反映。回帰テストはアプリの主要ハッピーパスを含めること。
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3Post-deployment verification verify
Confirm patched version is live in productionパッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。
Affected packages
References
- advisory nvd.nist.gov
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