CVE-2026-117564
Received
Received - Intake
Authentication Bypass in Nest-Admin via Hardcoded JWT Secret
Vulnerability report for CVE-2026-117564, including description, CVSS score, EPSS score, affected products, exploitability, helpful resources, and attack-flow context.
Publication date: 2026-10-27
Last updated on: 2026-10-27
Assigner: VulnCheck
Description
Description
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.
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Affected Vendors & Products
| Vendor | Product | Version / Range |
|---|---|---|
| buqiyuan | nest-admin | 0 |
Helpful Resources
Exploitability
CWE
KEV
| CWE ID | Description |
|---|---|
| CWE-321 | The product uses a hard-coded, unchangeable cryptographic key. |
