Auth bypass in Socfortress Copilot

CVE-2026-42869

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.

Vulnerability class: Broken Authentication

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CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 10.0 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.008 (54.1th percentile), scored .

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 54th percentile — 54.1% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2026-42869: held from 0.004 to 0.008.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.004 · newest: 0.008 · change: +0.003

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

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Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2026-42869?
CVE-2026-42869 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Socfortress Copilot, classified under Improper Authentication. CVSS score: 10.0/10. Published 2026-05-11.
How severe is CVE-2026-42869?
Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 10.0 out of 10.