CherryHQ cherry-studio up to 1.5.1 MCP os command injection

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A vulnerability has been found in CherryHQ cherry-studio up to 1.5.1 and classified as critical. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component MCP Handler. Performing a manipulation results in os command injection. This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2025-54074. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists. The affected component should be upgraded.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in CherryHQ cherry-studio up to 1.5.1. This affects an unknown part of the component MCP Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a os command injection vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-78. The product constructs all or part of an OS command using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the intended OS command when it is sent to a downstream component. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Cherry Studio is a desktop client that supports for multiple LLM providers. From versions 1.2.5 to 1.5.1, Cherry Studio is vulnerable to OS Command Injection during a connection with a malicious MCP server in HTTP Streamable mode. Attackers can setup a malicious MCP server with compatible OAuth authorization server endpoints and trick victims into connecting it, leading to OS command injection in vulnerable clients. This issue has been patched in version 1.5.2.

The advisory is shared at github.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2025-54074 since 07/16/2025. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1202 for this issue.

Upgrading to version 1.5.2 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2025-24562). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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• CherryHQ

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• cherry-studio

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• 1.5.0
• 1.5.1

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• Product: https://github.com/CherryHQ/cherry-studio/

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