CVE-2026-86242 affects Bifrost HTTP transport versions before 2.0.0, allowing unauthenticated remote code execution via a malicious plugin submission to POST /api/plugins when management authentication is disabled (the default configuration). The vulnerability arises because the shared-object loader accepts HTTP URLs as plugin paths, downloads them as .so files, and loads them via Go's plugin.Open, executing any Init function as the Bifrost process user. On dynamically linked builds (DYNAMIC=1), this results in full unauthenticated RCE. On the published statically linked Docker image, the attack is limited to server-side request forgery (SSRF) since plugin.Open fails. Attack complexity is rated High due to constraints around matching Go version, OS, architecture, and linkage. The 1.6.x branch through 1.6.11 does not contain the fix. The fix is available in version 2.0.0 of the HTTP transport.