CVE-2026-40525Critical· 9.1▾ MidnightOpenViking: Unauthenticated remote bot control via OpenAPI HTTP routes
▾ Midnight zone — Critical, or high with PoC / in-the-wild
impact 50.1 · likelihood 0.1 · exploitation 0
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Exploit-prediction probability, daily snapshots since Sep 12.
Disclosure to exploitation, from the record and what we observed since indexing it.
Disclosed via OSV
Last analysed / modified upstream
0.6%
OpenViking prior to commit c7bb167 contains an authentication bypass vulnerability in the VikingBot OpenAPI HTTP route surface where the authentication check fails open when the api_key configuration value is unset or empty. Remote attackers with network access to the exposed service can invoke privileged bot-control functionality without providing a valid X-API-Key header, including submitting attacker-controlled prompts, creating or using bot sessions, and accessing downstream tools, integrations, secrets, or data accessible to the bot.
openviking < 0.3.9Upgrade to a patched release:
openviking 0.3.9Connected by shared product, vendor, weakness, or advisory.