PYSEC-2026-438
OpenViking: Unauthenticated remote bot control via OpenAPI HTTP routes
Quick fix
PYSEC-2026-438 — openviking: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.
pip install --upgrade 'openviking>=0.3.9'Details
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.
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References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-40525[ADVISORY]
- https://github.com/volcengine/OpenViking/pull/1447[WEB]
- https://github.com/volcengine/OpenViking/commit/c7bb1676f4d037609f041bf39e4e2bd52e8f9820[WEB]
- https://github.com/volcengine/OpenViking[PACKAGE]
- https://github.com/volcengine/OpenViking/releases/tag/v0.3.9[WEB]
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/openviking-authentication-bypass-via-vikingbot-openapi[WEB]
- https://pypi.org/project/openviking[PACKAGE]
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-jgq2-vq69-gr6h[ADVISORY]