Paper/Archive/CVE-2026-42869

CVE-2026-42869

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

Description · from the CVE record

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.

Affected

ProductAffectedFixed inSource
CoPilot< 0.1.57–CNA

Scores by source

GitHub_M (CNA)10.0CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CISA ADPSSVCExploitation: poc · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: total

References

exploitgithub.com/socfortress/CoPilot/security/advisories/GHSA-4gxj-hw3c-3x2xrefgithub.com/socfortress/CoPilot/pull/814refgithub.com/socfortress/CoPilot/commit/4640511a0cf2e7b144a71375b5b349a8318cb186