CVE-2026-55585
QWED is open-source AI verification infrastructure for deterministic verification of LLM outputs, tool calls, code, schemas, and agent state before production execution. Prior to 5.1.2, the qwed package passes caller-controlled math expressions directly to SymPy parse_expr() without restricted global_dict and local_dict namespaces, allowing Python eval() to resolve builtins and execute arbitrary Python code in the API server process. In src/qwed_new/api/main.py, POST /verify/math is protected by get_current_tenant but accepts any valid tenant API key, reads the expression field, applies only a cosmetic re.sub(r'(\d)(()', r'\1*\2', expression) normalization, and passes the result to parse_expr(). In src/qwed_new/core/batch.py, POST /verify/batch sends math items through batch_service.create_job(), stores item.query verbatim, and _verify_item() passes VerificationType.MATH input to parse_expr() without sanitization. The default-enabled POST /auth/signup endpoint allows anyone to create a standard tenant account, POST /auth/api-keys issues an x-api-key, and either vulnerable path can then be used to read or write files, modify data, execute operating system commands, terminate the service, and compromise other tenants in a shared deployment. This issue is fixed in version 5.1.2.
What this means for your business
- An attacker can use it remotely, over a network, with an ordinary user login, and without anyone at your company clicking anything.
- FIRST's prediction model gives it a 0.4% chance of attack attempts being seen in the next 30 days, ranking above 37% of all known flaws.
What to do
- 1Ask your IT team or provider whether any of your systems use the affected product.
- 2If you do, follow the vendor's guidance. No patch reference has been published yet.
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Scoring
- CVSS
- 8.8 (v3.1)
- Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H- Weakness
- CWE-94
- Assigned by
- security-advisories@github.com
Dates
- Published
- 2026-08-25
- Last modified
- 2026-09-09
- Sources
- NVD
References
- https://github.com/QWED-AI/qwed-verification/commit/6066b68c0c4f4cc2c3771824822aaa864d082ef8
- https://github.com/QWED-AI/qwed-verification/commit/dc9d4db72ca4b4ae3f96d0e6a0c27a9e38a06f61
- https://github.com/QWED-AI/qwed-verification/pull/200
- https://github.com/QWED-AI/qwed-verification/security/advisories/GHSA-q27q-98j4-9pfv
- https://github.com/QWED-AI/qwed-verification/security/advisories/GHSA-q27q-98j4-9pfv