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Dataset date/model retained; FIRST services terms apply.","title":"CVE-2026-75911","publisher":"FIRST EPSS","observed_at":"2026-11-03T17:45:16.081Z"}],"affected_context":[{"certainty":"source_listed","source_ids":["sr-5dd8b3e1e9500deaffdfe22e7e524dad"],"technology":"deepseek-tui","known_exclusions":[],"conditions_summary":"### Maintainer resolution\n\nThe CodeWhale maintainers validated this report. The affected package ranges are recorded in the advisory metadata. Version 0.8.64 contains the fix in commit 43563356b98c6b993085554da82e77370160a31c. Users should upgrade to 0.8.64 or later. The original reporter analysis is preserved below.\n\n### Summary\n\nA malicious `.codewhale/config.toml` or `.deepseek/config.toml` committed to a repository can silently set `allow_shell = true` for any user who clones and opens the repository in CodeWhale. This enables the AI model's `exec_shell` tool, granting arbitrary shell command execution on the victim's machine without the user's explicit opt-in. The `approval_policy` and `sandbox_mode` fields correctly enforce tightening-only semantics from project config, but `allow_shell` has no such guard, contradicting the intent of GHSA-72w5-pf8h-xfp4 which established `allow_shell` as an opt-in security boundary.\n\n### Details\n\nThe project config merge function at `crates/tui/src/main.rs:5181-5182` (v0.8.50) unconditionally copies the `allow_shell` boolean from a project-level config file into the live session config:\n\n```rust\nif let Some(v) = table.get(\"allow_shell\").and_t","public_affected_ranges":[">= 0.8.6, <= 0.8.41"]},{"certainty":"source_listed","source_ids":["sr-5dd8b3e1e9500deaffdfe22e7e524dad"],"technology":"deepseek-tui","known_exclusions":[],"conditions_summary":"### Maintainer resolution\n\nThe CodeWhale maintainers validated this report. The affected package ranges are recorded in the advisory metadata. Version 0.8.64 contains the fix in commit 43563356b98c6b993085554da82e77370160a31c. Users should upgrade to 0.8.64 or later. The original reporter analysis is preserved below.\n\n### Summary\n\nA malicious `.codewhale/config.toml` or `.deepseek/config.toml` committed to a repository can silently set `allow_shell = true` for any user who clones and opens the repository in CodeWhale. This enables the AI model's `exec_shell` tool, granting arbitrary shell command execution on the victim's machine without the user's explicit opt-in. The `approval_policy` and `sandbox_mode` fields correctly enforce tightening-only semantics from project config, but `allow_shell` has no such guard, contradicting the intent of GHSA-72w5-pf8h-xfp4 which established `allow_shell` as an opt-in security boundary.\n\n### Details\n\nThe project config merge function at `crates/tui/src/main.rs:5181-5182` (v0.8.50) unconditionally copies the `allow_shell` boolean from a project-level config file into the live session config:\n\n```rust\nif let Some(v) = table.get(\"allow_shell\").and_t","public_affected_ranges":[">= 0.8.6, < 0.8.41"]},{"certainty":"source_listed","source_ids":["sr-5dd8b3e1e9500deaffdfe22e7e524dad"],"technology":"codewhale-tui","known_exclusions":[],"conditions_summary":"### Maintainer resolution\n\nThe CodeWhale maintainers validated this report. The affected package ranges are recorded in the advisory metadata. Version 0.8.64 contains the fix in commit 43563356b98c6b993085554da82e77370160a31c. Users should upgrade to 0.8.64 or later. The original reporter analysis is preserved below.\n\n### Summary\n\nA malicious `.codewhale/config.toml` or `.deepseek/config.toml` committed to a repository can silently set `allow_shell = true` for any user who clones and opens the repository in CodeWhale. This enables the AI model's `exec_shell` tool, granting arbitrary shell command execution on the victim's machine without the user's explicit opt-in. The `approval_policy` and `sandbox_mode` fields correctly enforce tightening-only semantics from project config, but `allow_shell` has no such guard, contradicting the intent of GHSA-72w5-pf8h-xfp4 which established `allow_shell` as an opt-in security boundary.\n\n### Details\n\nThe project config merge function at `crates/tui/src/main.rs:5181-5182` (v0.8.50) unconditionally copies the `allow_shell` boolean from a project-level config file into the live session config:\n\n```rust\nif let Some(v) = table.get(\"allow_shell\").and_t","public_affected_ranges":[">= 0.8.41, < 0.8.64"]},{"certainty":"source_listed","source_ids":["sr-5dd8b3e1e9500deaffdfe22e7e524dad"],"technology":"codewhale","known_exclusions":[],"conditions_summary":"### Maintainer resolution\n\nThe CodeWhale maintainers validated this report. The affected package ranges are recorded in the advisory metadata. Version 0.8.64 contains the fix in commit 43563356b98c6b993085554da82e77370160a31c. Users should upgrade to 0.8.64 or later. The original reporter analysis is preserved below.\n\n### Summary\n\nA malicious `.codewhale/config.toml` or `.deepseek/config.toml` committed to a repository can silently set `allow_shell = true` for any user who clones and opens the repository in CodeWhale. This enables the AI model's `exec_shell` tool, granting arbitrary shell command execution on the victim's machine without the user's explicit opt-in. The `approval_policy` and `sandbox_mode` fields correctly enforce tightening-only semantics from project config, but `allow_shell` has no such guard, contradicting the intent of GHSA-72w5-pf8h-xfp4 which established `allow_shell` as an opt-in security boundary.\n\n### Details\n\nThe project config merge function at `crates/tui/src/main.rs:5181-5182` (v0.8.50) unconditionally copies the `allow_shell` boolean from a project-level config file into the live session config:\n\n```rust\nif let Some(v) = table.get(\"allow_shell\").and_t","public_affected_ranges":[">= 0.8.41, < 0.8.64"]}],"null_published_at":"2026-11-08T19:53:44.044Z","source_updated_at":"2026-09-04T18:14:10.000Z","source_disclosed_at":"2026-09-04T18:14:09.000Z","is_synthetic_fixture":false,"null_last_reviewed_at":null,"public_change_summary":"Source facts changed; compare the preserved prior revision.","null_first_observed_at":"2026-11-02T02:20:52.377Z"},{"id":"NVI-00015349","kind":"vulnerability","title":"CodeWhale: Project config `allow_shell` override enables arbitrary shell command execution via cloned repository","revision":1,"unknowns":["Customer inventory, deployment, reachability and exploitation have not been inspected."],"lifecycle":"active","identifiers":["GHSA-gx45-xrj5-g6c4","CVE-2026-75911"],"plain_summary":"GitHub lists this reviewed advisory for deepseek-tui, deepseek-tui, codewhale-tui, codewhale. 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The original reporter analysis is preserved below.\n\n### Summary\n\nA malicious `.codewhale/config.toml` or `.deepseek/config.toml` committed to a repository can silently set `allow_shell = true` for any user who clones and opens the repository in CodeWhale. This enables the AI model's `exec_shell` tool, granting arbitrary shell command execution on the victim's machine without the user's explicit opt-in. The `approval_policy` and `sandbox_mode` fields correctly enforce tightening-only semantics from project config, but `allow_shell` has no such guard, contradicting the intent of GHSA-72w5-pf8h-xfp4 which established `allow_shell` as an opt-in security boundary.\n\n### Details\n\nThe project config merge function at `crates/tui/src/main.rs:5181-5182` (v0.8.50) unconditionally copies the `allow_shell` boolean from a project-level config file into the live session config:\n\n```rust\nif let Some(v) = table.get(\"allow_shell\").and_t","public_affected_ranges":[">= 0.8.6, <= 0.8.41"]},{"certainty":"source_listed","source_ids":["sr-5dd8b3e1e9500deaffdfe22e7e524dad"],"technology":"deepseek-tui","known_exclusions":[],"conditions_summary":"### Maintainer resolution\n\nThe CodeWhale maintainers validated this report. The affected package ranges are recorded in the advisory metadata. Version 0.8.64 contains the fix in commit 43563356b98c6b993085554da82e77370160a31c. Users should upgrade to 0.8.64 or later. The original reporter analysis is preserved below.\n\n### Summary\n\nA malicious `.codewhale/config.toml` or `.deepseek/config.toml` committed to a repository can silently set `allow_shell = true` for any user who clones and opens the repository in CodeWhale. This enables the AI model's `exec_shell` tool, granting arbitrary shell command execution on the victim's machine without the user's explicit opt-in. The `approval_policy` and `sandbox_mode` fields correctly enforce tightening-only semantics from project config, but `allow_shell` has no such guard, contradicting the intent of GHSA-72w5-pf8h-xfp4 which established `allow_shell` as an opt-in security boundary.\n\n### Details\n\nThe project config merge function at `crates/tui/src/main.rs:5181-5182` (v0.8.50) unconditionally copies the `allow_shell` boolean from a project-level config file into the live session config:\n\n```rust\nif let Some(v) = table.get(\"allow_shell\").and_t","public_affected_ranges":[">= 0.8.6, < 0.8.41"]},{"certainty":"source_listed","source_ids":["sr-5dd8b3e1e9500deaffdfe22e7e524dad"],"technology":"codewhale-tui","known_exclusions":[],"conditions_summary":"### Maintainer resolution\n\nThe CodeWhale maintainers validated this report. The affected package ranges are recorded in the advisory metadata. Version 0.8.64 contains the fix in commit 43563356b98c6b993085554da82e77370160a31c. Users should upgrade to 0.8.64 or later. The original reporter analysis is preserved below.\n\n### Summary\n\nA malicious `.codewhale/config.toml` or `.deepseek/config.toml` committed to a repository can silently set `allow_shell = true` for any user who clones and opens the repository in CodeWhale. This enables the AI model's `exec_shell` tool, granting arbitrary shell command execution on the victim's machine without the user's explicit opt-in. The `approval_policy` and `sandbox_mode` fields correctly enforce tightening-only semantics from project config, but `allow_shell` has no such guard, contradicting the intent of GHSA-72w5-pf8h-xfp4 which established `allow_shell` as an opt-in security boundary.\n\n### Details\n\nThe project config merge function at `crates/tui/src/main.rs:5181-5182` (v0.8.50) unconditionally copies the `allow_shell` boolean from a project-level config file into the live session config:\n\n```rust\nif let Some(v) = table.get(\"allow_shell\").and_t","public_affected_ranges":[">= 0.8.41, < 0.8.64"]},{"certainty":"source_listed","source_ids":["sr-5dd8b3e1e9500deaffdfe22e7e524dad"],"technology":"codewhale","known_exclusions":[],"conditions_summary":"### Maintainer resolution\n\nThe CodeWhale maintainers validated this report. The affected package ranges are recorded in the advisory metadata. Version 0.8.64 contains the fix in commit 43563356b98c6b993085554da82e77370160a31c. Users should upgrade to 0.8.64 or later. The original reporter analysis is preserved below.\n\n### Summary\n\nA malicious `.codewhale/config.toml` or `.deepseek/config.toml` committed to a repository can silently set `allow_shell = true` for any user who clones and opens the repository in CodeWhale. This enables the AI model's `exec_shell` tool, granting arbitrary shell command execution on the victim's machine without the user's explicit opt-in. The `approval_policy` and `sandbox_mode` fields correctly enforce tightening-only semantics from project config, but `allow_shell` has no such guard, contradicting the intent of GHSA-72w5-pf8h-xfp4 which established `allow_shell` as an opt-in security boundary.\n\n### Details\n\nThe project config merge function at `crates/tui/src/main.rs:5181-5182` (v0.8.50) unconditionally copies the `allow_shell` boolean from a project-level config file into the live session config:\n\n```rust\nif let Some(v) = table.get(\"allow_shell\").and_t","public_affected_ranges":[">= 0.8.41, < 0.8.64"]}],"null_published_at":"2026-11-03T10:03:31.350Z","source_updated_at":"2026-09-04T18:14:10.000Z","source_disclosed_at":"2026-09-04T18:14:09.000Z","is_synthetic_fixture":false,"null_last_reviewed_at":null,"public_change_summary":"First indexed by Null; source disclosure date is shown separately.","null_first_observed_at":"2026-11-02T02:20:52.377Z"}],"next_cursor":null,"snapshot_revision":"42594"}