# NousResearch/hermes-agent · SSRF guard for browser/terminal backend scenarios

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These issues and PRs concern applying or enabling SSRF URL validation when the terminal runs in a container or uses a local browser backend. The discussion includes whether the local backend detection logic correctly accounts for terminal backend configuration.

## TL;DR

- 4 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 2 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #50002. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #50002 (and any competing PRs below) before filing. Confirm the merged change covers your symptom.

## Maintainer resolution verdict

- Internal-tracker verdict over this cluster's issue members: `resolved` · deciding PR(s): `pr-50002`. This is distinct from the fix status above. Weigh it yourself.

## How this cluster was grouped

- Link evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.
- Pairwise link density `0.50`: the share of member 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.

## Closed / duplicate issues

- #38690: \`_is_local_backend()\` doesn't consider terminal.backend — intentional?

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#8054: fix(security): apply SSRF URL validation to local browser backend**. closed without merge · fix tier `suggested`
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `#38697`, `#38690`, `#8034`
  - _suggested-tier fix detail withheld; re-request with `?tier=all` to include it._
- **#50002: fix(browser): enable SSRF guard when terminal runs in container (#38690)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `tests/tools/test_browser_ssrf_local.py`, `tools/browser_tool.py`
- **#38697: fix(browser): enable SSRF guard when terminal runs in container**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `#50002`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #50002 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-06-21`.
- Subsystem: `agent`