---
id: CVE-2026-88061
title: >-
  career-ops is an open-source AI-assisted job search and application management
  tool
summary: >-
  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 …
severity: medium
cvss: 5.8
cvssVector: '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'
cwe:
  - CWE-352
  - CWE-1385
vendor: santifer
product: career-ops
affected:
  - career-ops < 0.8.0
published: '2026-09-10'
updated: '2026-09-15'
sourceUpdated: '2026-09-15T16:17:37.447'
source: NVD
sourceUrl: 'https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-88061'
references:
  - url: >-
      https://github.com/career-ops-hq/career-ops/commit/b3974e6104d83c2714fd0d071898a7c7b9f68726
    label: security-advisories@github.com
  - url: 'https://github.com/career-ops-hq/career-ops/releases/tag/web-v0.8.0'
    label: security-advisories@github.com
  - url: >-
      https://github.com/career-ops-hq/career-ops/security/advisories/GHSA-wpqw-whgf-gr4g
    label: security-advisories@github.com
tags:
  - nvd
  - cve.org
ssvc:
  exploitation: none
  automatable: 'yes'
  technicalImpact: partial
  timestamp: '2026-09-15T15:36:33.716951Z'
cvssSource: cna
epss: 0.00375
epssPercentile: 0.28739
ingestedAt: '2026-09-14T09:01:47.005Z'
---

## Overview

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.

## Remediation

Refer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.