CVE-2026-88061 PUBLISHED

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

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 09.09.2026 Published: 10.09.2026 Updated: 10.09.2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H
CVSS Score: 5.8

Product Status

Vendor santifer
Product career-ops
Versions
  • Version < 0.8.0 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-352: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) CWE
  • CWE-1385: Missing Origin Validation in WebSockets CWE