CVE-2026-45374

See a problem?
Please try reporting it to the source first.

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

GHSA-72w5-pf8h-xfp4

Published

2026-05-28T17:26:42Z

Modified

2026-10-28T02:30:23Z

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/codewhale-hq/Codewhale

Affected ranges

Type

GIT

Repo

https://github.com/codewhale-hq/Codewhale

Events

Introduced

Fixed

c3fb3438603b96cbb7769e81b7d2e8142ed87777

Database specific

Show details

{
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "range": [
                {
                    "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                    "fixed": "0.8.26"
                }
            ],
            "source": "AFFECTED_FIELD",
            "strategy": "StringRangeExpression"
        },
        {
            "original_tag": "v0.8.26",
            "range": [
                {
                    "fixed": "c3fb3438603b96cbb7769e81b7d2e8142ed87777"
                }
            ],
            "source": "REFERENCES_TAG"
        }
    ]
}

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"