CVE-2026-18976 (GCVE-0-2026-18976)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-06 01:45 – Updated: 2026-08-06 13:30
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
NousResearch hermes-agent disabled_toolsets agent_init.py get_tool_definitions privileges assignment
Summary
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Severity
SSVC
Exploitation: poc
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-08-06 13:29 UTC
CWE
- CWE-266 - Incorrect Privilege Assignment
Assigner
References
7 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://vuldb.com/vuln/386264 | vdb-entrytechnical-description |
| https://vuldb.com/vuln/386264/cti | signaturepermissions-required |
| https://vuldb.com/cve/CVE-2026-18976 | third-party-advisory |
| https://vuldb.com/submit/862541 | third-party-advisory |
| https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/issu… | exploitissue-tracking |
| https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/46185 | issue-trackingpatch |
| https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/ | product |
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NousResearch | hermes-agent |
Affected:
0.1
Affected: 0.2 Affected: 0.3 Affected: 0.4 Affected: 0.5 Affected: 0.6 Affected: 0.7 Affected: 0.8 Affected: 0.9 Affected: 0.10 Affected: 0.11 Affected: 0.12 Affected: 0.13 Affected: 0.14 Affected: 0.15 Affected: 0.16.0 cpe:2.3:a:nousresearch:hermes-agent:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
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Experimental. This forecast is provided for visualization only and may change without notice. Do not use it for operational decisions.
Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.
Sightings
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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