Vulnerability Report

CVE-2026-22798

Title: Sensitive Data Exposure in hermes

Information Disclosure

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2026-22798.

CWE Category CWE-532
Published Date Jan 12, 2026
Modified Date Mar 08, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 5.9 CVSS v3.1
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
0.01%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2026-22798: hermes is an implementation of the HERMES workflow to automatize software publication with rich metadata. From 0.8.1 to before 0.9.1, hermes subcommands take arbitrary options under the -O argument. These have been logged in raw form. If users provide sensitive data such as API tokens (e.g., via hermes deposit -O invenio_rdm.auth_token SECRET), these are written to the log file in plain text, making them available to whoever can access the log file. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.9.1.

Impacted Vendors

H
htc 1
S
software-metadata.pub 1

Reference Links

https://github.com/softwarepub/hermes/commit/7f64f102e916c76dc44404b77ab2a80f5a4e59b1 https://github.com/softwarepub/hermes/commit/90cb86acd026e7841f2539ae7a1b284a7f263514 https://github.com/softwarepub/hermes/security/advisories/GHSA-jm5j-jfrm-hm23
CVSS v3.1
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
5.0
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
N/A
Interaction
REQUIRED
Confidentiality
N/A
Integrity
N/A
Availability
N/A
Scope
UNCHANGED
RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS v3.1
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
5.9
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
N/A
Interaction
REQUIRED
Confidentiality
N/A
Integrity
N/A
Availability
N/A
Scope
CHANGED
RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2026-22798 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

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Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector LOCAL
Complexity LOW
Privileges N/A
Interaction REQUIRED
CVSS Vector String CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.