Description
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.
Published: 2026-11-02
Score: 9.3 Critical
EPSS: n/a
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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History

Mon, 02 Nov 2026 14:30:00 +0000

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Description 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.
Title ape-volo-admin before 3.6.1 Hardcoded JWT Signing Key Authentication Bypass
Weaknesses CWE-1394
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 9.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'}

cvssV4_0

{'score': 9.3, 'vector': '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'}

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: VulnCheck

Published:

Updated: 2026-11-02T14:29:03.407Z

Reserved: 2026-11-02T12:42:16.749Z

Link: CVE-2026-120442

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-11-02T15:17:26.490

Modified: 2026-11-02T15:17:26.490

Link: CVE-2026-120442

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-11-02T16:00:11Z

Weaknesses
  • CWE-1394

    Use of Default Cryptographic Key