CVE-2026-117564 (GCVE-0-2026-117564)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-10-27 13:07
Modified
2026-10-28 16:16
Severity ?
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
9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-321 - Use of Hard-coded Cryptographic Key
Summary
nest-admin before 1.0.1 contains an authentication bypass vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to forge administrator tokens by using a hardcoded JWT_SECRET committed in .env.production. Attackers can sign tokens with the known secret that JwtStrategy and RbacGuard trust, impersonating any user ID or claiming the admin role for full administrative access.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
buqiyuan nest-admin Version: 0   ≤
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