CRITICAL 9.8 CVE-2026-119597 Published 30 Oct 2026

OpenDeepWiki Hard-Coded JWT Key Lets Attackers Forge Admin Tokens

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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
  • API keys

Reference: CVE-2026-119597 on NVD

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