๐Ÿ” CVE Alert

CVE-2026-119025

HIGH 7.5

open 7.2.0 before 11.0.0 OS Command Injection via PowerShell on Windows

CVSS Score
7.5
EPSS Score
0.0%
EPSS Percentile
0th

open 7.2.0 before 11.0.0 contains an OS command injection vulnerability that allows attackers to execute PowerShell code by supplying crafted URLs on Windows and WSL. Attackers can embed $(...) subexpressions in URLs, such as OAuth authorization_endpoint values from malicious MCP servers, which execute when index.js passes them unescaped to powershell -EncodedCommand.

CWE CWE-78
Vendor sindresorhus
Product open
Published Oct 29, 2026
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CVSS v3 Breakdown

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
High
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

Affected Versions

sindresorhus / open
7.2.0 < 11.0.0
modelcontextprotocol / inspector
2.0.0 < 2.12.0
anomalyco / opencode
1.0.137 < 1.18.33

References

NVD โ†— CVE.org โ†— EPSS Data โ†—
github.com: https://github.com/sindresorhus/open/commit/274d70446bf38a7b7d50b214dd3962ef8ea9320d github.com: https://github.com/sindresorhus/open/releases/tag/v11.0.0 github.com: https://github.com/sindresorhus/open/blob/v10.2.0/index.js#L189-L203 github.com: https://github.com/sindresorhus/open/blob/v7.2.0/index.js#L60-L99 github.com: https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/inspector/security/advisories/GHSA-q978-78c7-phqw github.com: https://github.com/anomalyco/opencode/pull/51414 github.com: https://github.com/anomalyco/opencode/commit/29f07e0c69ad8668e0e15b0eb54f2fcb342af98c vulncheck.com: https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/open-7.2.0-before-11.0.0-os-command-injection-via-powershell-on-windows

Credits

Eilon Cohen (Pillar Security)