Vulnerability · Published May 11, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M
CVE-2026-42869SOCFortress CoPilot: Hardcoded JWT secret allows unauthenticated full admin compromise and lateral movement into all integrated SOC tools
Critical 10.0
In plain English
A critical-severity improper authentication in CoPilot from socfortress. Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.6% (higher than 47% of all known vulnerabilities).
Official description
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 products (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| socfortress | CoPilot | < 0.1.57 |
Weakness: CWE-287, CWE-522, CWE-798 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
References
- https://github.com/socfortress/CoPilot/security/advisories/GHSA-4gxj-hw3c-3x2x x_refsource_CONFIRM
- https://github.com/socfortress/CoPilot/pull/814 x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/socfortress/CoPilot/commit/4640511a0cf2e7b144a71375b5b349a8318cb186 x_refsource_MISC