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WSL external URL handling security and fix

NousResearch/hermes-agent · cluster 126939 · apps/desktop

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3 open items. Fix attempted, not merged.

The short answer

1open issue
2open PRs
4items grouped
Known?
Yes. 4 related items grouped here, 0 issues already closed.
Fix event
No fix has been merged to main. 1 PR closed without merging; see the attempts below.
Tracker
The maintainers' tracker marks this unresolved. That is separate from the fix event.
Still open
1 issue and 2 PRs.

A security vulnerability was identified where external URLs in WSL were passed to cmd.exe in a way that allowed command injection via metacharacters like &. The related items address this by switching to rundll32 and blocking dangerous inputs.

Open issues1

  • Issue#126939[Security] WSL external-link path hands a URL to `cmd.exe` with only a scheme allowlist, enabling `&`-delimited command execution

Open PRs2

  • PR#126968fix(desktop): fail WSL link opens closed on cmd.exe metacharacters
  • PR#129631fix(desktop): hand WSL external URLs to rundll32, not cmd.exe

1 PR closed without merging

From the close comments: superseded by another PR 1

  • #126974 fix(desktop): hand WSL external URLs to rundll32 instead of cmd.exe start · superseded by another PR → #129631
How this cluster was grouped
  • Link evidence (structural links throughout): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.
  • Pairwise link density 0.50: the share of item pairs that carry a link, counting a structural link in full and a relevance-only link at 0.36. 1.00 means every pair is linked.

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