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CVE-2026-73678 is a CVSS 10.0 failure in MindsDB Minds Platform 26.1.0 and earlier. Its agent API required no authentication, accepted cross-origin requests, let a caller supply the model key, and routed prompts to a Python scratchpad using exec(). The model was not the boundary. The HTTP control plane was — and it had none.
On this box, `hermes plugins list` prints more than eighty entries and every one says `not enabled` — while browser automation, image gen, kanban, and the memory provider all work. The path from `hermes plugins install` to a tool the model can actually call runs through three separate gates: the `plugins.enabled` load gate, the capability-consent surface, and the per-platform toolset filter (`_DEFAULT_OFF_TOOLSETS`, `known_plugin_toolsets`). Verified on v0.20.1: 37 hook names in VALID_HOOKS, the consent model that is explicitly 'NOT a sandbox' and fails closed, pinned-SHA installs that reject tags and branches, `hermes plugins doctor` catching declared-vs-registered drift, plugin packs that never bulk-grant consent, and the gotcha where you enable spotify, restart, and no spotify tools appear because the toolset is still off.
At Black Hat USA 2026, Novee Security's Elad Meged showed that a single GitHub issue — opened by an account with no repository privileges — was enough to reach CI runner secrets inside the vendors' own repositories for all three major coding agents: Claude Code (CVE-2026-54316), Gemini CLI (CVE-2026-12537, CVSS 10.0), and OpenAI Codex (no CVE at all). None of the failures lived in the models. Every one lived in the harness: validators that parse a different string than the shell executes, allowlists enforced at registration but never at runtime, process isolation that sanitized the child while the parent kept every secret, and an instruction file a compromised first pass can rewrite for the second. The uncomfortable conclusion: model safety training prevented none of these, and the same vulnerable defaults are running on well over a hundred public repositories today.