A flaw has been found in NousResearch hermes-agent up to 0.16.0. This affects the function save_url_image of the file agent/image_gen_provider.py of the component xAI Image Generation Provider. This manipulation causes server-side request forgery. The attack may be initiated remotely. The exploit has been published and may be used. The vendor was contacted early about this disclosure but did not respond in any way.
CVE-2026-18774
Score 6.3 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: LOW) published 2026-08-04. a secondary CVSS source baseline 6.3; sources differ by 0.0.
- Lower severity and no public exploit yet
No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.
- CVSS v3
- 6.3
- EG Score
- 6.3(high)
- EG Risk
- 44(Track)EG Risk 44/100SSVC: Track
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 computedSeverity63% × 45%Exploitation40% × 40%Automatability0% × 15%Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence. - EPSS PROB
- 0%
- EPSS %ILE
- 10%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
August 4, 2026
Last Modified
August 12, 2026
Advisory Details (1)
Auto-updated Aug 4, 2026hermes-agent: xAI image generation provider performs an unguarded host-side fetch of provider-controlled image URLs · GitHub
https://gist.github.com/YLChen-007/7c71603a25d84f372f2275dd570e99d4Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-18774(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 18× in last 7d / 51× in last 30d)
Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. 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. Most recent first.
- 2026-08-20 22:55 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-20 09:30 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-20 09:30 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-19 17:03 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-19 07:44 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-19 07:44 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-18 13:48 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-18 05:58 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-18 05:58 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-17 13:47 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-17 04:12 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-17 04:12 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-16 14:56 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-16 02:26 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-16 02:26 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-16 02:14 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-15 01:30 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-15 00:40 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-13 22:54 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-13 22:54 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-13 22:00 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-12 21:08 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-12 21:08 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-12 13:50 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-12 01:02 UTCEG score recompute
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- 2026-08-12 01:02 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-11 13:42 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-11 00:00 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-10 23:16 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-09 21:30 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-09 21:30 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-09 13:46 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-08 19:45 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-08 19:45 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-08 16:37 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-07 17:59 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-07 17:59 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-06 16:13 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-06 16:13 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-06 13:46 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-05 19:17 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-05 14:27 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-05 14:27 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-05 14:25 UTCNVD updateCVSS v4 → 2.1
- 2026-08-05 13:48 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-05 13:48 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-05 13:45 UTCMITRE cvelistV5CVSS v4 → 5.3
- 2026-08-04 17:23 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-04 17:23 UTCNVD updateCVSS v4 → 2.1
- 2026-08-04 16:27 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-04 16:26 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked
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