# CVE-2026-48036: Hulumi: Drift classifier fails open on adapter errors and over-promotes Mixed verdicts

- Also known as: GHSA-32G3-35G9-WC9G
- Severity: CVSS 8.4 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:H/VA:L/SC:N/SI:H/SA:L
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.4.0
- Published: 2026-07-24 · Updated: 2026-07-25

## Affected

- kerberosmansour hulumi: fixed in 1.4.0
- @hulumi/drift (npm): fixed in 1.4.0

## Description

Hulumi is an open-source toolkit that ships secure-by-default cloud and platform infrastructure components for Pulumi. Prior to version 1.4.0, consumers running drift detection in CI / cron could see transient adapter failures silently cached as "all clear" — masking real attacks for up to six hours — or see ordinary provider-version churn falsely promoted to incident severity. Either way, the verdict source was unreliable for downstream incident workflows that gate on it. This issue has been patched in version 1.4.0.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on kerberosmansour hulumi, @hulumi/drift, upgrade to a fixed version (1.4.0) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/kerberosmansour/hulumi/security/advisories/GHSA-32g3-35g9-wc9g
- https://github.com/kerberosmansour/hulumi/pull/178
- https://github.com/kerberosmansour/hulumi/releases/tag/v1.4.0

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