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Open source vulnerabilty hunting: Hermes Agent

Next’s Malware Lab dei Cyber Studios di T-Defence ha pubblicato una nuova analisi di vulnerabilità riguardante Hermes Agent (NousResearch). 

Durante l’attività di open source vulnerability hunting, i ricercatori hanno identificato un difetto nel flusso OAuth PKCE del componente dashboard: il file di credenziali Anthropic veniva scritto senza restrizioni sui permessi, risultando leggibile da altri account locali e da qualsiasi processo con accesso alla home directory dell’operatore. 

Il dettaglio rilevante è che tutti gli altri writer di credenziali nel codebase applicavano già questa misura, mentre il percorso dashboard era l’unico valore anomalo. Questo bastava per esporre un token di lunga durata a lettura non autorizzata. 

La vulnerabilità è stata classificata High ed è stata risolta prima della divulgazione pubblica. La correzione estende ora il pattern di scrittura sicura a tutti i percorsi OAuth del progetto. 

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