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CVE-2026-120442

ape-volo-admin before 3.6.1 Hardcoded JWT Signing Key Authentication Bypass

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Severity and exploitation

Not in CISA KEV

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KEV checked 08/11/2026, 03:15:33 UTC
VulnCheck · CVSS:4.0 · 9.3
Assessment vectorCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
VulnCheck · CVSS:3.1 · 9.8
Assessment vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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Severity

critical9.8

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Known exploitation

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Public exploit

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Remediation

Fix status not established

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What this means

Ape-volo-admin before 3.6.1 has a hardcoded JWT signing key, allowing unauthenticated attackers to forge administrator tokens and gain API control. The weakness is due to the use of a default cryptographic key. Attackers can sign tokens offline to bypass authentication.

Summarized by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast. Verify details against the original sources.

Attack conditions

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xianhc · VulnCheck

ape-volo-admin

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affected

0 → before 3.6.1

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unknown

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Public exploit evidence

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Original source description

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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.

References

8 sources
xianhc/ape-volo-admin · commit 938f7ec
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xianhc/ape-volo-admin · issues/36
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xianhc/ape-volo-admin · releases/tag/V3.6.1
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xianhc/ape-volo-admin · appsettings.json
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xianhc/ape-volo-admin · AuthorizationExtensions.cs
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xianhc/ape-volo-admin · PermissionHandler.cs
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hackmd.io/@hieuPenguinnn/ape-volo-admin-hardcoded-jwt-secret-admin-token-forgery
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www.vulncheck.com/advisories/ape-volo-admin-before-3.6.1-hardcoded-jwt-signing-key-authentication-bypass
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CVE-2026-120442

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Underlying weaknesses

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CWE-1394 ↗

Use of Default Cryptographic Key

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Contributing organizations · 2
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Assigning organization

2026-11-02
CISA-ADP

Additional data publisher

2026-11-05

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  1. CVE · CVE-2026-120442

    Observed 2026-11-05T22:38:54.125Z · upstream updated 2026-11-05T21:39:20.223Z

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        "name": "Exploitation",
        "value": "none"
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        "name": "Automatable",
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