CVE-2026-109444: OpenSRE

The National Vulnerability Database (NVD) record says instructions injected into alerts or Slack messages triaged by the OpenSRE agent (through 0.1.2026.10.19) can make it run shell commands without confirmation, because the approval check in headless mode always allows execution.

The record

Kind

Vulnerability

Source record

CVE-2026-109444: OpenSRE through 0.1.2026.10.19 contains an approval gate bypass vulnerability that allows attackers to execute (National Vulnerability Database record)

Record published

2026-10-20

Posted here

2026-10-20

World

Software agents · Enterprise work agents

Controls concerned

Destructive-action gate C-E3; Halt and hand off on uncertainty or refusal C-D2; Retrieved content as data C-I1

Checked

Checked against its record on 2026-10-22 by a reader who did not draft it; report verification/reports/SIG-2026-10-20-004-2026-10-22.md.

A signal's controls are the ones its record points at, the exposure; a case's controls are the ones its records show were absent or failed, so the two can differ.

Corrections

Changes to what this signal says, with the reason. Every earlier version is kept.

• 2026-10-22: Summary. Plain-language rule: abbreviations spelled out at first use (NVD, MCP, SDK). No claim changed. 22 October 2026.
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  Before: The NVD record says instructions injected into alerts or Slack messages triaged by the OpenSRE agent (through 0.1.2026.10.19) can make it run shell commands without confirmation, because the approval check in headless mode always allows execution.

  After: The National Vulnerability Database (NVD) record says instructions injected into alerts or Slack messages triaged by the OpenSRE agent (through 0.1.2026.10.19) can make it run shell commands without confirmation, because the approval check in headless mode always allows execution.

What a signal is. A signal records what a primary record says; it assigns no fault. It is lighter than a case: one dated item from one record, tagged with the world, sector and controls it touches. It becomes a case when it meets the bar for one.

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