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Ruflo MCP Flaw Lets Unauthenticated Attackers Run Commands and Poison AI Memory

·Source: The Hacker News

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Executive Summary

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a maximum-severity security flaw in Ruflo, an open-source agent meta-harness for Anthropic Claude Code and OpenAI Codex, that could result in unauthenticated remote code execution. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-59726 (CVSS score: 10.0), impacts all versions of the project before version 3.16.3. It has been codenamed RufRoot by Noma Security's

Analysis

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a maximum-severity security flaw in Ruflo, an open-source agent meta-harness for Anthropic Claude Code and OpenAI Codex, that could result in unauthenticated remote code execution. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-59726 (CVSS score: 10.0), impacts all versions of the project before version 3.16.3. It has been codenamed RufRoot by Noma Security's

Indicators of Compromise (1)

CVE (1)
CVE-2026-59726
NVDMITRE CVE
Source Attribution

Originally published by The Hacker News on Jul 29, 2026.

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