CVE-2026-45374

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-45374
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-45374.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-45374
Aliases
Published
2026-05-28T17:26:42Z
Modified
2026-08-12T03:51:19Z
Severity
  • 9.6 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
CodeWhale: task_create Insecure Defaults Enable RCE via Prompt Injection in Project Files
Details

CodeWhale is a DeepSeek + MiMo coding agent in terminal. Prior to 0.8.26, the task_create tool spawns durable sub-agents that inherit two insecure defaults, allow_shell defaults to true (config.rs:1499: self.allow_shell.unwrap_or(true)) and auto_approve defaults to true (task_manager.rs:297: auto_approve: Some(true)). When a user approves a task_create call (which requires ApprovalRequirement::Required), they approve what appears to be a benign work prompt. However, the spawned sub-agent silently receives unrestricted, unapproved shell access. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.8.26.

Database specific 
{
    "cna_assigner": "GitHub_M",
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-94"
    ],
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/45xxx/CVE-2026-45374.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/hmbown/codewhale

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/hmbown/codewhale
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
c3fb3438603b96cbb7769e81b7d2e8142ed87777
Database specific
Show details 
{
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "0.8.26"
        }
    ],
    "source": [
        "AFFECTED_FIELD",
        "REFERENCES"
    ]
}

Affected versions

v0.*
v0.1.0
v0.2.0
v0.2.2
v0.3.0
v0.3.1
v0.3.10
v0.3.11
v0.3.12
v0.3.13
v0.3.14
v0.3.16
v0.3.17
v0.3.18
v0.3.19
v0.3.2
v0.3.20
v0.3.21
v0.3.22
v0.3.23
v0.3.24
v0.3.25
v0.3.26
v0.3.27
v0.3.28
v0.3.3
v0.3.31
v0.3.32
v0.3.33
v0.3.4
v0.3.5
v0.4.0
v0.4.1
v0.4.2
v0.4.3
v0.4.4
v0.4.5
v0.4.6
v0.4.7
v0.4.8
v0.4.9
v0.5.0
v0.5.1
v0.5.2
v0.6.1
v0.6.2
v0.6.3
v0.6.4
v0.6.5
v0.6.6
v0.6.7
v0.7.0
v0.7.1
v0.7.2
v0.7.4
v0.7.5
v0.7.6
v0.7.7
v0.7.8
v0.7.9
v0.8.0
v0.8.1
v0.8.10
v0.8.11
v0.8.12
v0.8.13
v0.8.14
v0.8.15
v0.8.17
v0.8.18
v0.8.19
v0.8.2
v0.8.20
v0.8.21
v0.8.22
v0.8.23
v0.8.24
v0.8.25
v0.8.3
v0.8.4
v0.8.5
v0.8.6
v0.8.7
v0.8.8
v0.8.9

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-45374.json"