continuedev Continue up to 1.5.47 Bash Tool evaluateTerminalCommandSecurity.ts isCriticalCommand Home permission

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A vulnerability labeled as critical has been found in continuedev Continue up to 1.5.47. This vulnerability affects the function isCriticalCommand of the file packages/terminal-security/src/evaluateTerminalCommandSecurity.ts of the component Bash Tool. The manipulation of the argument Home results in permission. This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2026-76072. The attack can be launched remotely. No exploit exists.

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A vulnerability was found in continuedev Continue up to 1.5.47. It has been classified as critical. Affected is the function isCriticalCommand of the file packages/terminal-security/src/evaluateTerminalCommandSecurity.ts of the component Bash Tool. The manipulation of the argument HOME with an unknown input leads to a permission vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-275. This is going to have an impact on integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

The Continue CLI applies an incomplete denylist as its only barrier to destructive shell commands when running unattended. In headless mode and auto mode the default policy in extensions/cli/src/permissions/defaultPolicies.ts grants the Bash tool the allow permission, and permissionChecker.ts hard-blocks a command only when the terminal-security evaluator returns a disabled verdict, so isCriticalCommand in packages/terminal-security/src/evaluateTerminalCommandSecurity.ts is the sole control. Its dangerous-path test matches only /, /*, ~, ~/*, /usr, /etc, /bin and /sbin and their prefixes, so a recursive forced removal of /home, /root, /var, /opt or /srv is not disabled. The command line is parsed with shell-quote, which reduces $HOME to an empty token, so rm -rf $HOME also fails the dangerous-path test while the shell re-expands the variable when the command is spawned. find with -delete is rated high risk rather than disabled, and shred, wipefs, truncate and pkexec are not handled. Because the agent autonomously reads content it does not control, including fetched web pages, repository files and issue text, an indirect prompt injection in that content can cause an unattended run to destroy the invoking user's data.

The advisory is available at github.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2026-76072 since 08/18/2026. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 08/24/2026). This vulnerability is assigned to T1222 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

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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• continuedev

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• Continue

Version

• 1.5.0
• 1.5.1
• 1.5.2
• 1.5.3
• 1.5.4
• 1.5.5
• 1.5.6
• 1.5.7
• 1.5.8
• 1.5.9
• 1.5.10
• 1.5.11
• 1.5.12
• 1.5.13
• 1.5.14
• 1.5.15
• 1.5.16
• 1.5.17
• 1.5.18
• 1.5.19
• 1.5.20
• 1.5.21
• 1.5.22
• 1.5.23
• 1.5.24
• 1.5.25
• 1.5.26
• 1.5.27
• 1.5.28
• 1.5.29
• 1.5.30
• 1.5.31
• 1.5.32
• 1.5.33
• 1.5.34
• 1.5.35
• 1.5.36
• 1.5.37
• 1.5.38
• 1.5.39
• 1.5.40
• 1.5.41
• 1.5.42
• 1.5.43
• 1.5.44
• 1.5.45
• 1.5.46
• 1.5.47

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