PT-2026-35969 · Nousresearch · Hermes-Agent

Yu_Bao · Published 2026-04-29 · Updated 2026-04-29 · CVE-2026-7397

Mitre

CVSS v3.1

4.4

Medium

AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L

A security flaw has been discovered in NousResearch hermes-agent 0.8.0. This affects the function check sensitive path of the file tools/file tools.py. The manipulation results in symlink following. Attacking locally is a requirement. The exploit has been released to the public and may be used for attacks. Upgrading to version 0.9.0 is able to mitigate this issue. The patch is identified as 311dac197145e19e07df68feba2cd55d896a3cd1. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

Exploit

Fix

Link Following

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-61

CWE-59

Related Identifiers

CVE-2026-7397

Affected Products

Hermes-Agent

References · 9

• 🔥 https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/issues/8734 · Exploit
• https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/commit/311dac197145e19e07df68feba2cd55d896a3cd1 · Patch
• https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/releases/tag/v2026.4.13 · Patch
• https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/8829 · Patch
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-7397 · Security Note
• https://vuldb.com/submit/803270 · Note
• https://vuldb.com/vuln/360121 · Note
• https://vuldb.com/vuln/360121/cti · Note
• https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent · Note