# CVE-2026-111057: Mercury: Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution in /api/terminals - access control bypass

- Also known as: GHSA-F8C7-RWF9-FMGM
- Severity: CVSS 10.0 (Critical), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 3.2.4
- Published: 2026-10-19 · Updated: 2026-10-28

## Affected

- mljar mercury: from 3.0.0, fixed in 3.2.4
- mercury (PyPI): from 3.0.0, fixed in 3.2.4

## Description

Mercury is a Python framework for sharing Jupyter notebooks as web applications and dashboards. From 3.0.0 until 3.2.4, a missing comma in BLOCKED_PATTERNS concatenates the /lab and /api/terminals regular-expression literals. Requests to /api/terminals therefore bypass the anonymous endpoint blocklist and reach Jupyter Server's terminal API. An unauthenticated attacker can use the resulting interactive operating-system shell to execute commands and access data available to the Mercury process. This issue is fixed in version 3.2.4.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on mljar mercury, mercury, upgrade to a fixed version (3.2.4) per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/mljar/mercury/security/advisories/GHSA-f8c7-rwf9-fmgm
- https://github.com/mljar/mercury/commit/8c467129037ee9df269d543ac217ffd33b97bf3f
- https://github.com/mljar/mercury/releases/tag/v3.2.4

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