Hermes WebUI before 0.51.443 contains an authorization bypass vulnerability in the session export endpoint that allows authenticated users to access sessions from other profiles. The _handle_session_export handler in api/routes.py fails to verify active-profile ownership before serializing session data, enabling attackers to exfiltrate foreign session transcripts by guessing or knowing session identifiers.
CVE-2026-55198
Score 6.5 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2026-06-17. the CNA's CVSS baseline 6.5; 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
- 6.5
- EG Score
- 6.5(high)
- EPSS
- 19.0%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
June 17, 2026
Last Modified
June 23, 2026
Advisory Details (5)
Auto-updated Jun 17, 2026[security] fix(session): scope exports to active profile
Upstream fix in progress (PR #3991 · nesquena/hermes-webui, state=closed)
https://github.com/nesquena/hermes-webui/pull/3991Hermes WebUI < 0.51.443 - Cross-Profile Session Data Exfiltration via Session Export Endpoint | Advisories | VulnCheck
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/hermes-webui-cross-profile-session-data-exfiltration-via-session-export-endpointv0.51.443
Patch available: nesquena/hermes-webui v0.51.443
https://github.com/nesquena/hermes-webui/releases/tag/v0.51.443Release PD (v0.51.443): [security] scope session by-id reads + exports to active profile (#3982, #3991)
Patch available: nesquena/hermes-webui v0.51.452 (PR #4269 merged 2026-06-15)
https://github.com/nesquena/hermes-webui/pull/4269commit 2a3baa71b81c (nesquena/hermes-webui)
Patch available: nesquena/hermes-webui v0.51.452 (contains commit 2a3baa71b81c)
https://github.com/nesquena/hermes-webui/commit/2a3baa71b81ca92da8ece8616a09f15894beec71Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-55198(1)
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