CVE-2026-45336CWE-798

HireFlow: Use of Hard-coded Credentials

Critical · published July 16, 2026

CVSS v3.1
10.0
EPSS
1%
Percentile
49.1
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

HireFlow is a web-based interview management system for managing candidates, scheduling interviews, and tracking hiring progress. In 1.2 and earlier, app.py assigns a hard-coded Flask secret_key used to sign session cookies, allowing unauthenticated attackers who know the public source value to forge cookies containing role=admin and user_id values and bypass authentication. The advisory lists version 1.3 as fixed.

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:L
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00621 · 49.1th percentile
Weakness
CWE-798 · Use of Hard-coded Credentials
Published
2026-07-16T17:03Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 16 JUL 17:03Z
    HireFlow: Use of Hard-coded Credentials
    cvelistv5