CVE-2026-42869CWE-287CWE-522CWE-798

SOCFortress CoPilot: Hardcoded JWT secret allows unauthenticated full admin compromise and lateral movement into all integrated SOC tools

Critical · published May 11, 2026

CVSS v3.1
10.0
EPSS
1%
Percentile
55.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

SOCFortress CoPilot focuses on providing a single pane of glass for all your security operations needs. Prior to 0.1.57, SOCFortress CoPilot ships a hardcoded JWT signing secret as a fallback value in backend/app/auth/utils.py:28 and ships it verbatim in .env.example. Any deployment where JWT_SECRET is not explicitly set — including the default Docker Compose setup — signs all authentication tokens with this publicly known value. An unauthenticated attacker can forge arbitrary admin-scoped JWTs and gain full control of the application and every security tool it manages without any credentials. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.1.57.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
10.0 · CRITICAL
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00778 · 55.4th percentile
Weaknesses
CWE-287 · Improper Authentication; CWE-522 · Insufficiently Protected Credentials; CWE-798 · Use of Hard-coded Credentials
Published
2026-05-11T18:39Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 11 MAY 18:39Z
    SOCFortress CoPilot: Hardcoded JWT secret allows unauthenticated full admin compromise and lateral movement into all integrated SOC tools
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