CherryHQ cherry-studio up to 1.9.12 SearchService improper isolation or compartmentalization

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A vulnerability was found in CherryHQ cherry-studio up to 1.9.12. It has been declared as critical. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component SearchService. The manipulation results in improper isolation or compartmentalization. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2026-40501. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. No exploit is available.

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A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in CherryHQ cherry-studio up to 1.9.12. Affected is some unknown processing of the component SearchService. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a improper isolation or compartmentalization vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-653. The product does not properly compartmentalize or isolate functionality, processes, or resources that require different privilege levels, rights, or permissions. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Cherry Studio versions 1.2.2 through 1.9.12, fixed in commit 1518530, contain a remote code execution vulnerability in SearchService that allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by delivering malicious JavaScript through controlled search provider content loaded into an Electron BrowserWindow configured with nodeIntegration enabled and contextIsolation disabled. Attackers who control a search engine provider, individual search result pages, or provider settings pages can execute JavaScript with full Node.js privileges, gaining access to fs, child_process, os, and process.env under the operating-system account of the Cherry Studio process.

The advisory is available at gist.github.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2026-40501 since 04/13/2026. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 07/15/2026).

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• CherryHQ

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• cherry-studio

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• 1.9.0
• 1.9.1
• 1.9.2
• 1.9.3
• 1.9.4
• 1.9.5
• 1.9.6
• 1.9.7
• 1.9.8
• 1.9.9
• 1.9.10
• 1.9.11
• 1.9.12

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