{"answers":{"affected":"8 open source packages ship an affected version, including codewhale-tui, deepseek-tui and codewhale.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-75859 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Upgrade codewhale-tui to 0.8.64 or later.","what":"CVE-2026-75859 is a high-severity path traversal vulnerability in Hmbown CodeWhale, published on 18 Aug 2026. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2026-75859 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2026-75859 is a high-severity path traversal vulnerability in Hmbown CodeWhale, published on 18 Aug 2026. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-75859 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected packages and fixed versions:\n- codewhale-tui (crates.io): affected from 0.8.41; fixed in 0.8.64\n- codewhale-tui (crates.io): affected from 0.8.41; fixed in 0.8.64\n- deepseek-tui (crates.io): affected from 0.8.8; no fix listed\n- deepseek-tui (crates.io): affected from 0.8.8; no fix listed\n- codewhale (npm): affected from 0.8.41; fixed in 0.8.64\n- codewhale (npm): affected from 0.8.41; fixed in 0.8.64\n- deepseek-tui (npm): affected from 0.8.8; fixed in 0.8.41\n- deepseek-tui (npm): affected from 0.8.8; fixed in 0.8.41\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-75859/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-75859/index.md)","id":"CVE-2026-75859","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-75859/index.md","name":"CVE-2026-75859","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-62f5-cp2p-vq95"],"analysis":{"component_type":"developer_tool","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["data_read"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"CodeWhale AI tool","requires_auth":"none","summary":"Attackers can read arbitrary files on the victim's system via malicious project config instructions in CodeWhale, leading to data exfiltration.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"path_traversal"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"VulnCheck","cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":8.7,"severity":"high","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N","version":"4.0"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-22","name":"Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory"}],"description":"CodeWhale versions before 0.8.64 fail to validate file paths in the project config instructions field, allowing attackers to read arbitrary files on the victim's system. A malicious .codewhale/config.toml file in a cloned repository can specify paths outside the workspace that are read and injected into the AI system prompt for exfiltration.","ecosystems":["crates.io","npm"],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"CodeWhale before 0.8.64 Arbitrary File Read via instructions","id":"CVE-2026-75859","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":"crates.io","product":null,"products":[],"type":"path_traversal","year":"2026"},"n_packages":8,"n_references":3,"next":{"headline":"JSON Options \u003c= 0.0.4 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Options Update","id":"CVE-2026-75860"},"packages":[{"ecosystem":"crates.io","fixed":["0.8.64"],"introduced":["0.8.41"],"last_affected":[],"package":"codewhale-tui","purl":null,"source":"GHSA-62f5-cp2p-vq95"},{"ecosystem":"crates.io","fixed":["0.8.64"],"introduced":["0.8.41"],"last_affected":[],"package":"codewhale-tui","purl":"pkg:cargo/codewhale-tui","source":"GHSA-62f5-cp2p-vq95"},{"ecosystem":"crates.io","fixed":[],"introduced":["0.8.8"],"last_affected":[],"package":"deepseek-tui","purl":null,"source":"GHSA-62f5-cp2p-vq95"},{"ecosystem":"crates.io","fixed":[],"introduced":["0.8.8"],"last_affected":[],"package":"deepseek-tui","purl":"pkg:cargo/deepseek-tui","source":"GHSA-62f5-cp2p-vq95"},{"ecosystem":"npm","fixed":["0.8.64"],"introduced":["0.8.41"],"last_affected":[],"package":"codewhale","purl":null,"source":"GHSA-62f5-cp2p-vq95"},{"ecosystem":"npm","fixed":["0.8.64"],"introduced":["0.8.41"],"last_affected":[],"package":"codewhale","purl":"pkg:npm/codewhale","source":"GHSA-62f5-cp2p-vq95"},{"ecosystem":"npm","fixed":["0.8.41"],"introduced":["0.8.8"],"last_affected":[],"package":"deepseek-tui","purl":null,"source":"GHSA-62f5-cp2p-vq95"},{"ecosystem":"npm","fixed":["0.8.41"],"introduced":["0.8.8"],"last_affected":[],"package":"deepseek-tui","purl":"pkg:npm/deepseek-tui","source":"GHSA-62f5-cp2p-vq95"}],"prev":{"headline":"CodeWhale rlm_eval before 0.8.64 Remote Code Execution","id":"CVE-2026-75858"},"products":["CodeWhale"],"published":"2026-08-18","related":[],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CC BY 4.0","name":"GitHub Advisory Database","prefix":"GHSA"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"yes","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"partial"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-08-20","vendors":["Hmbown"]},"summary":"Attackers can read arbitrary files on the victim's system via malicious project config instructions in CodeWhale, leading to data exfiltration.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-75859/"}