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CVE-2026-120442

9.3 criticalEPSS 0.5%

Critical (9.3). EPSS 0.5% estimated probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

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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.

Severity

CVSS 4.0

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

CVSS 3.1

9.8 critical
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
0.5% estimated probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days; 42nd percentile. Scored 2026-11-03. A forecast for this CVE across the internet, not for your own systems.
CWE
CWE-1394 Use of Default Cryptographic Key
Published
Modified
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