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CVE-2026-54555

rtk: Permission-gate bypass in rtk rewrite auto-allow via unsplit shell separators

CVSS 7.8 HIGHEPSS 0.1%CWE-863
Vexday Risk Score
21Low
SSVC decision (CISA)
Track
No exploitation signal → monitor
CVSS 7.8EPSS 0.1%KEV nãoPoC Nuclei Metasploit Patch
Lifecycle
23 Jun 2026Published on NVD
Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.
rtk filters and compresses command outputs before they reach your LLM context. Prior to 0.42.2, the permission splitter did not conservatively split or reject several shell constructs that Bash treats as command execution boundaries or nested execution. As a result, a command beginning with an allowed prefix such as git could hide a second command behind one of these constructs. rtk rewrite returned exit code 0, causing the Claude hook to emit permissionDecision: "allow". The rewritten command still contained the hidden command, so it ran without the user confirmation or denial that the permission rules were intended to enforce. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.42.2.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
rtk-ai · rtk

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