volcengine/openviking · Security
OpenViking: Unauthenticated remote bot control via OpenAPI HTTP routes
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-jgq2-vq69-gr6h
- CVE ID
- CVE-2026-40525
- Severity
- critical
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 9.1 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- CVSS v3
- 9.1 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- CVSS v4
- 9.1 · CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Description
OpenViking prior to commit c7bb167 contains an authentication bypass vulnerability in the VikingBot OpenAPI HTTP route surface where the authentication check fails open when the api_key configuration value is unset or empty. Remote attackers with network access to the exposed service can invoke privileged bot-control functionality without providing a valid X-API-Key header, including submitting attacker-controlled prompts, creating or using bot sessions, and accessing downstream tools, integrations, secrets, or data accessible to the bot.
CWEs
- CWE-636 · Not Failing Securely ('Failing Open')
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-40525 ↗
- https://github.com/volcengine/OpenViking/pull/1447 ↗
- https://github.com/volcengine/OpenViking/commit/c7bb1676f4d037609f041bf39e4e2bd52e8f9820 ↗
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/openviking-authentication-bypass-via-vikingbot-openapi ↗
- https://github.com/volcengine/OpenViking/releases/tag/v0.3.9 ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-jgq2-vq69-gr6h ↗