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CVE-2026-55176.

Source-reported disclosure and enrichment record.

SEVERITY / CVSSCRITICAL / 9CVSS 3.1 · security-advisories@github.com
EXPLOITATION STATUSNot listed in the cached KEV catalogThis does not establish absence of exploitation.
RECORD STATUSDeferredModified Oct 02, 2026

Disclosure summary

Soft Machine is a Virtual Machine–based agentic development environment / Cloud OS. In versions 0.2.247 and prior, two authentication helpers in /app/server.js — verifyContainerAuth() and authenticateWorkspaceHttp() — accept the global CONTAINER_SHARED_SECRET as a bearer token without verifying which workspace the caller belongs to. Because that secret is set identically on every container in the Fly app and is reachable from the user-facing process environment inside each workspace, any tenant can use it to authenticate to any other tenant's workspace API. The result is cross-workspace read, write, and destructive-restore primitives reachable from any paying customer's shell. The existing per-workspace token check (workspaceTokenMatches) protects the user-facing per-workspace token path, but the shared-secret bearer path bypasses it entirely. At time of publication, there are no publicly known patches.

Source-reported weakness categories

CWE-863

Source-specific records & product guidance

Sources retain their own attribution and scoring. Follow the original record to confirm affected versions, fixed releases, and configuration conditions.

NIST National Vulnerability Database · NVD-CVE-2026-55176

Open original source · Updated Oct 02, 2026

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Original records & references

PUBLISHED 2026-09-30T13:16:46-04:00
MODIFIED 2026-10-02T13:17:06-04:00
INGESTED 2026-10-06T11:44:59-04:00