CVE-2026-76072
Continue CLI headless mode permits destructive shell commands via prompt injection.
Is CVE-2026-76072 being exploited?
Not confirmed. CVE-2026-76072 does not appear in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, which records only exploitation that has been observed and reported publicly. That is evidence of absence of a report, not evidence the flaw is unattacked. EPSS currently estimates a 0.32% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.
How severe is CVE-2026-76072?
CVE-2026-76072 is rated High with a CVSS score of 8.3. Severity describes how bad exploitation would be, not how likely it is: pair it with exploitation evidence before deciding what to patch first.
Is there a patch for CVE-2026-76072?
Not known from our data. No patch reference has been recorded for CVE-2026-76072, which is not the same as no patch existing — a fix may have shipped without a tagged reference, or after this record was written. The vendor advisory is the only authority on whether a fix exists, and mitigations may be available regardless.
What does CVE-2026-76072 affect?
CVE-2026-76072 affects Continue CLI (headless/auto modes), Continue agent, extensions/cli, packages/terminal-security. Confirm the exact affected versions against the vendor advisory before deciding you are exposed.
What should I do about CVE-2026-76072?
Disable headless/auto modes, restrict Bash tool execution, and apply vendor patch when released.
Exploitation status reflects CISA's KEV catalog as we last synced it. Check the catalog directly.
Prompt-injected content can cause the agent to run destructive shell commands (rm -rf, find -delete, shred), leading to host data deletion and potential code execution.
Immediate action required
- affected<= 1.5.47
As published in the CVE Program record. A version outside these ranges is not a statement that it is unaffected — vendors sometimes understate a range, and distribution-backported builds carry upstream numbers that do not reflect what was patched into them.