# CVE-2026-88061: career-ops: Local dashboard API accepted cross-origin and non-loopback requests, allowing unauthenticated command execution

- Severity: CVSS 5.8 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 0.8.0
- Published: 2026-09-10 · Updated: 2026-09-15

## Affected

- santifer career-ops: fixed in 0.8.0

## Description

career-ops is an open-source AI-assisted job search and application management tool. Prior to 0.8.0, the career-ops local web dashboard web/ exposed command-spawning and user-file-writing /api routes without validating request origin or restricting clients to loopback addresses. A malicious page in another browser tab could send cross-origin localhost requests while the dashboard was running, and a dashboard bound beyond loopback could receive direct requests from the local network. Both paths allowed unauthenticated command execution as the dashboard user, but npm installations were unaffected because web/ is excluded from the published package. This issue is fixed in version 0.8.0.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on santifer career-ops, upgrade to a fixed version (0.8.0) per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/career-ops-hq/career-ops/security/advisories/GHSA-wpqw-whgf-gr4g
- https://github.com/career-ops-hq/career-ops/commit/b3974e6104d83c2714fd0d071898a7c7b9f68726
- https://github.com/career-ops-hq/career-ops/releases/tag/web-v0.8.0

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