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AI security incident: CVE-2025-68669 (NVD)

Incident date: December 23, 2025 | Published: February 14, 2026 | Source: NVD | Classification confidence: 89%

This incident is part of the public archive and includes explicit AI-related signals from the cited source material. Review methodology.

5ire is a cross-platform desktop artificial intelligence assistant and model context protocol client. In versions 0.15.2 and prior, an RCE vulnerability exists in useMarkdown.ts, where the markdown-it-mermaid plugin is initialized with securityLevel: 'loose'. This configuration explicitly permits the rendering of HTML tags within Mermaid diagram nodes. This issue has not been patched at time of publication.

Why This Is AI-Related

This page is treated as AI-specific because the source material references artificial intelligence, copilot, which places the issue inside an AI workflow, model, assistant, or supporting dependency rather than a generic software bulletin.

  • artificial intelligence
  • copilot

Affected Workflow

Review AI plugins, copilots, model-serving helpers, CLI tools, and automation runtimes that execute system commands.

Likely Attack Path

An attacker can turn the vulnerable AI-adjacent component into a path for command execution on the host or service runtime.

Impact

The issue can create a path to command execution inside an AI-facing product, plugin, copilot, or supporting service runtime. Severity HIGH. Classification confidence 89%. Source channel NVD.

Detection And Triage Signals

  • New shell or process activity from AI-facing services
  • Unexpected outbound connections or file writes after prompt or API activity
  • Privilege changes, container escapes, or suspicious job execution logs

Recommended Response

  • Identify every environment that runs the affected AI plugin, assistant, CLI, or supporting package.
  • Patch or isolate the vulnerable component and remove risky execution permissions while validation is in progress.
  • Review process execution, outbound connections, and file-write logs for signs of post-exploitation activity.

Compliance And Business Impact

Code execution paths create immediate risk of host compromise, credential theft, and downstream lateral movement.

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