A vulnerability was identified in NousResearch hermes-agent up to 0.12.0. Affected by this vulnerability is the function _compress_context of the file run_agent.py. The manipulation leads to injection. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. The exploit is publicly available and might be used. The vendor was contacted early about this disclosure but did not respond in any way.
CVE-2026-10221
Score 7.3 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2026-06-01. a secondary CVSS source baseline 7.3; sources differ by 0.0.
- High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.
- CVSS v3
- 7.3
- EG Score
- 7.3(medium)
- EG Risk
- 64(Attend)EG Risk 64/100SSVC: Attend
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).
How it’s computedSeverity73% × 45%Exploitation40% × 40%Automatability100% × 15%Action: Remediate soon — notable exploitation risk. - EPSS
- 22.6%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
June 1, 2026
Last Modified
July 22, 2026
Advisory Details (1)
Auto-updated Jun 11, 2026Prompt Injection via Synthetic User Message in Todo Snapshot After Context Compression · GitHub
https://gist.github.com/YLChen-007/d343fcfe2c009cd45f56dc475fd5ac03Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-10221(1)
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Weakness Classification(2)
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