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.

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References

https://github.com/AIDotNet/OpenDeepWiki

https://github.com/AIDotNet/OpenDeepWiki/blob/v2.0.6/src/OpenDeepWiki/Program.cs#L92

https://github.com/AIDotNet/OpenDeepWiki/blob/v2.0.6/src/OpenDeepWiki/appsettings.json#L27

https://github.com/AIDotNet/OpenDeepWiki/commit/1bf0f4b5ef8d972ca640e5df145b5813a9492544

https://github.com/AIDotNet/OpenDeepWiki/issues/403

https://hackmd.io/@hieuPenguinnn/opendeepwiki-hardcoded-jwt-secret-admin-forgery

https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/opendeepwiki-through-2.0.6-hard-coded-jwt-signing-key-admin-token-forgery

Weaknesses

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Primary
CWE-321

CVSS impact metrics

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

9.8 · Critical

Information

Source identifier

[email protected]

Vulnerability status

Deferred

Published

2026-10-30T14:16:47.770Z

6 hours ago

Last modified

2026-10-30T19:23:25.493Z

1 hour ago