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OpenharnessApplication · Hkuds

CVE-2026-6729

HIGH · 7.6 CVSS v3.1 Published 2026-04-20
Fix available
A fix is available. Upgrade to 0.1.7 or later.
See remediation →
82/100
Remediation priority · High
Public exploit Remotely reachable Zero-click Patch available

Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.

NVD · unedited
HKUDS OpenHarness prior to PR #159 remediation contains a session key derivation vulnerability that allows authenticated participants in shared chats or threads to hijack other users' sessions by exploiting a shared ohmo session key that lacks sender identity verification. Attackers can reuse another user's conversation state and replace or interrupt their active tasks by colliding into the same session boundary through the shared chat or thread scope.

Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.

dbcve analysis
How this class of weakness works · CWE-287

The mechanism that verifies who a user is can be side-stepped or fooled, letting an attacker act as someone they're not. Everything built on top of that identity then becomes untrustworthy. Fixing it means hardening the full authentication flow, including edge cases, tokens, and secondary paths.

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Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.

NVD · CPE data
OpenharnessApplication
Affected:< 0.1.7

CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.

From the vector
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
Low
Availability
Low

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L

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dbcve · scoped
Upgrade available Upgrade to 0.1.7 or later
Fixed in 0.1.7
Vendor patch github.com →
Recommended fix Moderate confidence

0.1.7 or later

  1. 1. Backup your current OpenHarness installation and any associated data
  2. 2. Navigate to the OpenHarness repository or your deployment environment
  3. 3. Pull or fetch the latest changes that include the fix from commit 3186851c479ee714a9bb9aa6cd77017db7e589e2
  4. 4. Update to version 0.1.7 or later which contains the PR #159 remediation
  5. 5. Verify the installation of the patched version
  6. 6. Test that session handling in shared chat/thread functionality works correctly
  7. 7. Monitor for any authentication anomalies post-upgrade

Generated from the published advisory — verify against the referenced sources before acting.

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