CVE-2026-120442 (GCVE-0-2026-120442)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-11-02 14:29 – Updated: 2026-11-05 21:39
VLAI
Title
ape-volo-admin before 3.6.1 Hardcoded JWT Signing Key Authentication Bypass
Summary
ape-volo-admin before 3.6.1 contains an authentication bypass vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to forge administrator tokens using a hardcoded JWT signing key in appsettings.json. Attackers can sign tokens offline with the jti claim set to the seeded administrator id to gain full API control over users, roles, permissions and data.
Severity
9.3 (Critical)
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-11-05 21:38 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-1394 - Use of Default Cryptographic Key
Assigner
VulnCheck CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard B 84/100 over 7427 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
xianhc ape-volo-admin Affected: 0 , < 3.6.1 (semver)
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Date Public
2026-10-25 00:00
Credits
hieuPenguinnn
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