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Hermes WebUI < 0.51.368 - Profile-Scoped Authorization Bypass via Forged hermes_profile Cookie

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severity
high
date
Affecting

  • Hermes WebUI < 0.51.368

CWE
  • CWE-565 Reliance on Cookies without Validation and Integrity Checking
CVSS
8.6
CVSS V4 Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Credit
Chia Min Jun Lennon
Description
Hermes WebUI before 0.51.368 contains an authorization bypass vulnerability in the get_profile_cookie() function that accepts unauthenticated profile names from the hermes_profile cookie. An authenticated attacker can forge the hermes_profile cookie value to bypass profile-scoped authorization checks and access sessions, files, and resources across different profiles.

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