Critical 10.0Published May 11, 2026

CVE-2026-42869SOCFortress CoPilot: Hardcoded JWT secret allows unauthenticated full admin compromise and lateral movement into all integrated SOC tools

Updated under an hour ago (Oct 26, 2026, 5:23 AM ET)

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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.

CVSS: 10.0 CRITICAL (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness (CWE): CWE-287, CWE-522, CWE-798
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: GitHub_M
NVD analysis: Deferred
Record last updated: May 12, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

socfortress CoPilot socfortress:copilot (from the name)	before 0.1.57	CNA record

References

https://github.com/socfortress/CoPilot/security/advisories/GHSA-4gxj-hw3c-3x2xx-refsource-confirm
https://github.com/socfortress/CoPilot/pull/814x-refsource-misc
https://github.com/socfortress/CoPilot/commit/4640511a0cf2e7b144a71375b5b349a8318cb186x-refsource-misc

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