CVSS 4.0
9.3 criticalCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:NCVE-2026-85391
Critical (9.3). EPSS 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
Peppermint through 0.5.5 contains a hardcoded JWT signing secret in docker-compose.yml that allows unauthenticated attackers to forge session tokens for any account. Attackers can use the published secret to mint valid tokens for arbitrary user IDs and access protected endpoints without credentials.
Severity
CVSS 3.1
9.8 criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H- EPSS
- 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 50% of CVEs (scores of 2026-11-01)
- CWE
- CWE-798
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
References
- https://github.com/Peppermint-Lab/peppermint
- https://github.com/Peppermint-Lab/peppermint/blob/0.5.5/apps/api/src/lib/jwt.ts
- https://github.com/Peppermint-Lab/peppermint/blob/0.5.5/docker-compose.yml
- https://github.com/Peppermint-Lab/peppermint/issues/528
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/peppermint-through-0.5.5-use-of-hard-coded-jwt-signing-secret-in-docker-compose-yml