CVE-2026-49958
Description
Hermes WebUI before version 0.51.303 contains a time-of-check time-of-use (TOCTOU) race condition vulnerability in the git_discard function within api/workspace_git.py that allows attackers to delete files outside the configured workspace boundary by replacing a validated path component with a symlink after validation but before deletion. Attackers can substitute a workspace-controlled path component with a symlink pointing to an external directory between the safe_resolve_ws() validation step and the subsequent Path.unlink() or shutil.rmtree() deletion call, causing the delete operation to follow the symlink and remove arbitrary files outside the workspace.
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Affected products
1- Range: <0.51.303
Patches
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References
5- github.com/nesquena/hermes-webui/commit/4580f584964d640b95c4ffc9245a21ab926bec73nvd
- github.com/nesquena/hermes-webui/pull/3702nvd
- github.com/nesquena/hermes-webui/pull/3756nvd
- github.com/nesquena/hermes-webui/releases/tag/v0.51.303nvd
- www.vulncheck.com/advisories/hermes-webui-toctou-race-condition-via-git-discardnvd
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