CVE-2026-88061

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

MEDIUM
5.8
CVSS Score
Published: September 10, 2026 at 07:08 PM UTC
Updated: September 30, 2026 at 05:51 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorCareer Ops

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Severity
MEDIUM5.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.4%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

v < 0.8.0
Affected range stops below 0.8.0, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitAutomatablePartial impact

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CVSS

5.8MEDIUMGitHub_M
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusDEFERRED
CWE
CWE-352CWE-1385

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