MuseBot before 2.0.0 contains an authentication bypass vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to forge admin sessions by using…
CVE-2026-119660
MuseBot before 2.0.0 contains an authentication bypass vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to forge admin sessions by using the hard-coded default sessionkey 'musebotsessionkey'. Attackers can sign a MuseBot-session cookie carrying a userid to gain full administrative access, reading password hashes, chat records, and bot configuration, and stopping bots.
Assessment
- CVSS
- 9.3 (v4.0)
- Severity
- Critical
- Known exploited
- Not listed in CISA KEV
- Exploit availability
- Nothing found in Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei or public PoC repositories
- Published
- 30 October 2026
- Last updated
- 30 October 2026
- Weakness
- CWE-1394
- Assigner
- disclosure@vulncheck.com
CVSS vectorCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
At the source
References
- https://github.com/yincongcyincong/MuseBot
- https://github.com/yincongcyincong/MuseBot/blob/v1.0.42/admin/conf/conf.go#L28
- https://github.com/yincongcyincong/MuseBot/blob/v1.0.42/admin/controller/login.go#L19-L88
- https://github.com/yincongcyincong/MuseBot/commit/139f6158b50283b983d76976f593a3a09a064681
- https://github.com/yincongcyincong/MuseBot/commit/3e64518948fe7037058f07ef987d35216c3f0cae
- https://github.com/yincongcyincong/MuseBot/issues/61
- https://hackmd.io/@hieuPenguinnn/musebot-admin-default-session-key-auth-bypass
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/musebot-before-2.0.0-authentication-bypass-via-hard-coded-session-key
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