CVE-2026-73519
Full vulnerability record from the local CVENow database.
Description
WolfStack before 25.9.2 contains a hard-coded cluster-authentication secret compiled into every build and published as a constant in src/auth/mod.rs, allowing remote unauthenticated attackers to bypass authentication by supplying this value in the X-WolfStack-Secret header to the require_auth() gate without any session, API key, or user account. Attackers can reach an affected node's management port to enumerate all Docker and LXC containers on the host and execute arbitrary commands as root inside any container via the POST /api/containers/{runtime}/{id}/exec endpoint.
Severity
CRITICAL
CVSS score
9.3
(v4.0)
Vulnerability status
Deferred
Source identifier
Published
2026-08-12 22:17:17.600000
Last modified
2026-10-24 15:10:00.190000
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