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CVE-2026-119597

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Description

OpenDeepWiki through 2.0.6 contains a hard-coded JWT signing key vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to forge administrator tokens using the publicly known Jwt:SecretKey in appsettings.json. Attackers can mint HS256 bearer tokens with an Admin role claim to access /api/admin endpoints and control users, roles, repositories, settings, and API keys.

Severity
CRITICAL
CVSS score
9.3 (v4.0)
Vulnerability status
Received
Source identifier
Published
2026-10-30 14:16:47.770000
Last modified
2026-10-30 14:16:47.770000
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  "id": "CVE-2026-119597",
  "sourceIdentifier": "[email protected]",
  "published": "2026-10-30T14:16:47.770",
  "lastModified": "2026-10-30T14:16:47.770",
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    }
  ],
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    {
      "source": "[email protected]",
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        {
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          "product": "OpenDeepWiki",
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          "repo": "https://github.com/AIDotNet/OpenDeepWiki",
          "versions": [
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              "version": "0",
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              "versionType": "semver",
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            }
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        }
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    }
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  "references": [
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/AIDotNet/OpenDeepWiki",
      "source": "[email protected]"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/AIDotNet/OpenDeepWiki/blob/v2.0.6/src/OpenDeepWiki/Program.cs#L92",
      "source": "[email protected]"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/AIDotNet/OpenDeepWiki/blob/v2.0.6/src/OpenDeepWiki/appsettings.json#L27",
      "source": "[email protected]"
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    {
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      "url": "https://github.com/AIDotNet/OpenDeepWiki/issues/403",
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    },
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}