A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in NousResearch hermes-agent up to 2026.4.23. Impacted is an unknown function of the file agent/skills_guard.py of the component Skills Guard Multi-Word Prompt Handler. The manipulation of the argument THREAT_PATTERNS leads to injection.
This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2026-9353. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. Furthermore, an exploit is available.
The vendor was contacted early about this disclosure but did not respond in any way.