CVE-2025-61926CWE-453CWE-798

Allstar Reviewbot has Authentication Bypass via Hard-coded Webhook Secret

Medium · published October 9, 2025

CVSS v4.0
4.6
EPSS
0%
Percentile
30.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Allstar is a GitHub App to set and enforce security policies. In versions prior to 4.5, a vulnerability in Allstar’s Reviewbot component caused inbound webhook requests to be validated against a hard-coded, shared secret. The value used for the secret token was compiled into the Allstar binary and could not be configured at runtime. In practice, this meant that every deployment using Reviewbot would validate requests with the same secret unless the operator modified source code and rebuilt the component - an expectation that is not documented and is easy to miss. All Allstar releases prior to v4.5 that include the Reviewbot code path are affected. Deployments on v4.5 and later are not affected. Those who have not enabled or exposed the Reviewbot endpoint are not exposed to this issue.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v4.0
4.6 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U
EPSS
0.00369 · 30.0th percentile
Weaknesses
CWE-453 · Insecure Default Variable Initialization; CWE-798 · Use of Hard-coded Credentials
Published
2025-10-09T21:20Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 09 OCT 21:20Z
    Allstar Reviewbot has Authentication Bypass via Hard-coded Webhook Secret
    cvelistv5