CVE-2026-75914: Hmbown Codewhale

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

CodeWhale versions before 0.8.64 contain a path traversal vulnerability in the image_analyze tool that fails to canonicalize symlinks before reading files. Attackers can create workspace symlinks pointing to external files with image extensions to leak file bytes to the vision endpoint without user approval.

Affected products

• Hmbown Codewhale: from 0.8.32, before 0.8.41 (fixed in 0.8.41); from 0.8.41, before 0.8.64 (fixed in 0.8.64)

Published 2026-08-18. Last modified 2026-09-08.