CVE-2026-55585CWE-94code-injection

CVE-2026-55585

High · published August 25, 2026

CVSS v3.1
8.8
EPSS
1%
Percentile
55.3
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
8.8 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00775 · 55.3th percentile
Weakness
CWE-94 · Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')
Published
2026-08-25T21:17Z
References (5)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 27 AUG 06:36Z
    EPSS moved — → 0%
    epss
  • 25 AUG 16:23Z
    QWED: Authenticated Remote Code Execution via Unsafe SymPy `parse_expr()`
    cvelistv5