# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Cron job prompt injection and privilege security fixes

## Open now

- 1 issue, 0 PRs open on GitHub.
- #8886: \[Bug\]: Cron Job Full Privilege Execution with Trivially Bypassable Prompt Scanning

These issues and pull requests address security vulnerabilities in cron job execution, specifically around prompt scanning that could be bypassed via skill content, privilege hardening, and related approval and toolset controls.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 1 open issue(s), 0 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 1 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #31947. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #31947 (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: `unresolved`. 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.67`: 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.

## Open related issues

- #8886: \[Bug\]: Cron Job Full Privilege Execution with Trivially Bypassable Prompt Scanning

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#31947: fix(cron): layer agent.disabled_toolsets onto cron baseline (#25752, salvage)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `cron/scheduler.py`, `scripts/release.py`, `tests/cron/test_scheduler.py`
- **#9124: fix: harden cron job privilege and prompt scanning**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `silent_close`; implication `active`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #31947 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-05-25`.
- Subsystem: `cron`