CVE-2026-81662CWE-20CWE-94code-injection

CVE-2026-81662

published August 27, 2026

CVSS
8.6
EPSS
1%
Percentile
43.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Affected versions of Flowintel improperly trust configuration keys supplied to the alerts settings update endpoint. While configuration values were normalized to Python literals, the corresponding keys were used directly when constructing and replacing lines in conf/config_module.py.

The vulnerable code used requester-controlled keys in both the regular expression and the generated assignment:

f'{key} = {py_val}'

and appended an assignment if the key was not already present. The modified Python configuration module was subsequently reloaded using importlib.reload(). This creates a code-generation boundary in which specially crafted configuration keys can alter the Python source structure and result in execution of attacker-controlled Python statements.

Version impacted >=3.3.0

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
8.6 · NONE
CVSS v4.0
8.6 · CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
EPSS
0.00527 · 43.8th percentile
Weaknesses
CWE-20 · Improper Input Validation; CWE-94 · Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')
Published
2026-08-27T17:18Z
References (1)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 27 AUG 10:23Z
    Flowintel Alert Settings Configuration Allows Remote Code Execution via Arbitrary Configuration Keys
    cvelistv5