CVE-2026-109444: OpenSRE through 0.1.2026.10.19 Approval Gate Bypass via shell_run Prompt Injection

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2026-10-20 · updated 2026-10-22
Weakness: CWE-862

Description

OpenSRE through 0.1.2026.10.19 contains an approval gate bypass vulnerability that allows attackers to execute shell_run commands without confirmation because the headless presenter's execution_allowed() always returns True. Attackers can inject instructions into alerts or Slack messages triaged by the agent to run commands on the host and exfiltrate LLM, Slack and cloud credentials.

Affected products

Tracer-Cloud opensre: through 0.1.2026.10.19

References

https://github.com/Tracer-Cloud/opensre/blob/8eba8c9301fa954d9eecb1693b7e2021215ec2ec/gateway/transports/slack/processing/dispatcher.py#L276
https://github.com/Tracer-Cloud/opensre/blob/8eba8c9301fa954d9eecb1693b7e2021215ec2ec/tools/interactive_shell/subprocess_presenter.py#L41
https://www.lasso.security/vulnerability-database/cve-2026-109444
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/opensre-through-0.1.2026.10.19-approval-gate-bypass-via-shell-run-prompt-injection

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