Medium severity · published Sep 10, 2026
CVE-2026-88061
career-ops: Local dashboard API accepted cross-origin and non-loopback requests, allowing unauthenticated command execution
5.8
CVSS
0.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.4% · higher than 31% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
CA
career-ops · santifer
< 0.8.0 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-88061
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-88061
github.com
https://github.com/career-ops-hq/career-ops/commit/b3974e6104d83c2714fd0d071898a7c7b9f68726
github.com
https://github.com/career-ops-hq/career-ops/releases/tag/web-v0.8.0
github.com
https://github.com/career-ops-hq/career-ops/security/advisories/GHSA-wpqw-whgf-gr4g
