Medium 5.8Published Sep 10, 2026

CVE-2026-88061career-ops: Local dashboard API accepted cross-origin and non-loopback requests, allowing unauthenticated command execution

Updated under an hour ago (2026-10-19 06:30 UTC)

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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.

CVSS: 5.8 MEDIUM (v4.0, CNA)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
Weakness (CWE): CWE-352, CWE-1385
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: GitHub_M
NVD analysis: Deferred
Record last updated: Sep 15, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

santifer career-ops santifer:career_ops (from the name)	before 0.8.0	CNA record

References

https://github.com/career-ops-hq/career-ops/security/advisories/GHSA-wpqw-whgf-gr4gx-refsource-confirm
https://github.com/career-ops-hq/career-ops/commit/b3974e6104d83c2714fd0d071898a7c7b9f68726x-refsource-misc
https://github.com/career-ops-hq/career-ops/releases/tag/web-v0.8.0x-refsource-misc

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