CVE-2026-109442

CRITICALPre-NVD 9.89.8
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to the CVSS score beside it.

Score 9.8 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: CRITICAL) published 2026-10-20. A secondary CVSS source baseline 9.8; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, a secondary CVSS source
Trending — 4 sources updated this weekElevated
9.8EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan mitigationRemediate within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • CISA's Vulnrichment rates exploitation as PoC; EchelonGraph holds no exploit-code reference for it
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.7%CVSS: 9.8Exploit: No code on recordExposed services: Not assessed

No fix is confirmed yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for the fix.

The CVE record's CNA (VulnCheck) lists cas-bigdatalab piflow versions 2.0.0 up to and including 2.0.1 as affected. No release containing a fix is confirmed on record.

piflow 2.0.0 through 2.0.1 contains a remote code execution vulnerability in its DeepAgents chat agent, whose POST /chat and POST /chat/stream endpoints lack authentication. Attackers can instruct the agent to call the exec_shell tool, which runs arbitrary commands via subprocess.run without human approval or an allow-list, exposing environment secrets such as LLM API keys and database credentials.

CVSS v3
9.8
EG Score
9.8CRITICALhigh confidence
EG Risk
75
EG Risk 75/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity98% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 9.8 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation40% × 40%
EchelonGraph's fixed weight for EG-KEV Tier 3 (Elevated): a constant, not a probability.
Automatability100% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: yes (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.
Exploitation public PoC (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: No fix is confirmed yet. Restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high, and watch the vendor's advisory for the fix.
EPSS PROB
0.7%
EPSS %ILE
52nd
KEV
Not listed

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (9.8): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.8 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
9.8 CRITICALCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
0.7% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-21). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Track* at medium mission impactTrack at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.CISA BOD 26-04: 3 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days if it is not.Each input and its source: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.

No fix is confirmed yet. Restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high, and watch the vendor's advisory for the fix.

Exploitation public PoC (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)3 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days if it is not.

In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

October 20, 2026

Last Modified

October 20, 2026

Advisory Details (4)

Auto-updated Oct 20, 2026
No fix on record yet.
Web page

piflow 2.0.0 through 2.0.1 Unauthenticated RCE via Chat Agent exec_shell | Advisories | VulnCheck

https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/piflow-2.0.0-through-2.0.1-unauthenticated-rce-via-chat-agent-exec-shell
Web page

CVE-2026-109442: piflow Shell Tool Security Flaw

https://www.lasso.security/vulnerability-database/cve-2026-109442
Web page

piflow/server.py at ad8d0108a54a4257307d4946dc9250e26f24c63f · cas-bigdatalab/piflow · GitHub

https://github.com/cas-bigdatalab/piflow/blob/ad8d0108a54a4257307d4946dc9250e26f24c63f/server.py#L615
Web page

piflow/agents/tools.py at ad8d0108a54a4257307d4946dc9250e26f24c63f · cas-bigdatalab/piflow · GitHub

https://github.com/cas-bigdatalab/piflow/blob/ad8d0108a54a4257307d4946dc9250e26f24c63f/agents/tools.py#L114

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-109442(1)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 14× in last 7d / 14× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

  1. 2026-10-21 21:48 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-10-21 21:48 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9925-27m4-6rvp · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  3. 2026-10-21 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 52nd percentile
  4. 2026-10-20 20:26 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9925-27m4-6rvp · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  5. 2026-10-20 17:29 UTCEG score recompute
  6. 2026-10-20 17:29 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9925-27m4-6rvp · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  7. 2026-10-20 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 52nd percentile
  8. 2026-10-20 16:31 UTCEG score recompute
  9. 2026-10-20 16:30 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9925-27m4-6rvp · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  10. 2026-10-20 16:17 UTCEG score recompute
  11. 2026-10-20 16:17 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9925-27m4-6rvp · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  12. 2026-10-20 01:26 UTCEG score recompute
  13. 2026-10-20 01:10 UTCEG score recomputeFirst assessed: 9.8 CRITICAL
  14. 2026-10-20 01:07 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-109442?
CVE-2026-109442 is a critical-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on October 20, 2026. piflow 2.0.0 through 2.0.1 contains a remote code execution vulnerability in its DeepAgents chat agent, whose POST /chat and POST /chat/stream endpoints lack authentication. Attackers can instruct the agent to call the exec_shell tool, which runs arbitrary commands via subprocess.run without human…
When was CVE-2026-109442 made public?
CVE-2026-109442 was made public on October 15, 2026: that is the date its CVE record's CNA, VulnCheck, gives for when the vulnerability was made public. The CVE record itself was published on October 20, 2026. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of October 20, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2026-109442 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-109442 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (52nd percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-109442?
CVE-2026-109442 has a CVSS base score of 9.8 (a secondary CVSS source that NVD displays; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-109442?
No fix for CVE-2026-109442 is confirmed yet. Until one is published, restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation — for example, keep it off the internet or limit it to trusted networks — and watch the vendor's advisory for the fix. The CVE record's CNA (VulnCheck) lists cas-bigdatalab piflow versions 2.0.0 up to and including 2.0.1 as affected. No release containing a fix is confirmed on record. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-109442 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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