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CVE-2026-88061: career-ops: Local dashboard API accepted cross-origin and non-loopback requests, allowing unauthenticated command execution

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.8 v4.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-09-10 · updated 2026-09-30
• Weakness: CWE-352

Description

career-ops is an open-source AI-assisted job search and application management tool. Prior to 0.8.0, the career-ops local web dashboard web/ exposed command-spawning and user-file-writing /api routes without validating request origin or restricting clients to loopback addresses. A malicious page in another browser tab could send cross-origin localhost requests while the dashboard was running, and a dashboard bound beyond loopback could receive direct requests from the local network. Both paths allowed unauthenticated command execution as the dashboard user, but npm installations were unaffected because web/ is excluded from the published package. This issue is fixed in version 0.8.0.

Affected products

• santifer career-ops: before 0.8.0

References

• https://github.com/career-ops-hq/career-ops/commit/b3974e6104d83c2714fd0d071898a7c7b9f68726
• https://github.com/career-ops-hq/career-ops/releases/tag/web-v0.8.0
• https://github.com/career-ops-hq/career-ops/security/advisories/GHSA-wpqw-whgf-gr4g

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