CVE-2026-55585
QWED is open-source AI verification infrastructure for deterministic verification of LLM outputs, tool calls, code, schemas, and agent state before production execution.
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.44%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
QWED is open-source AI verification infrastructure for deterministic verification of LLM outputs, tool calls, code, schemas, and agent state before production execution. Prior to 5.1.2, the qwed package passes caller-controlled math expressions directly to SymPy parse_expr() without restricted global_dict and local_dict namespaces, allowing Python eval() to resolve builtins and execute arbitrary Python code in the API server process. In src/qwed_new/api/main.py, POST /verify/math is protected by get_current_tenant but accepts any valid tenant API key, reads the expression field, applies only a cosmetic re.sub(r'(\d)(()', r'\1*\2', expression) normalization, and passes the result to parse_expr(). In src/qwed_new/core/batch.py, POST /verify/batch sends math items through batch_service.create_job(), stores item.query verbatim, and _verify_item() passes VerificationType.MATH input to parse_expr() without sanitization. The default-enabled POST /auth/signup endpoint allows anyone to create a standard tenant account, POST /auth/api-keys issues an x-api-key, and either vulnerable path can then be used to read or write files, modify data, execute operating system commands, terminate the service, and compromise other tenants in a shared deployment. This issue is fixed in version 5.1.2.
- CVSS 3.1
- 8.8 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 0.44% probability · 38th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-94
- Source
- security-advisories@github.com
References
- https://github.com/QWED-AI/qwed-verification/commit/6066b68c0c4f4cc2c3771824822aaa864d082ef8
- https://github.com/QWED-AI/qwed-verification/commit/dc9d4db72ca4b4ae3f96d0e6a0c27a9e38a06f61
- https://github.com/QWED-AI/qwed-verification/pull/200
- https://github.com/QWED-AI/qwed-verification/security/advisories/GHSA-q27q-98j4-9pfv
- https://github.com/QWED-AI/qwed-verification/security/advisories/GHSA-q27q-98j4-9pfv
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.